The latest article in the news web of abc news from Australia, ”Bali Nine” discuss the contravertion about the execution of two drug smugglers from Australia that will be held near the Nusakambangan prison in Central Java. Authors, Jan Thomas, disagree with the execution of the Duo Bali Nine bosses because it’s out of human rights. Probably because Australia don’t have any death sentence for drug users nor drug smugglers, Thomas inveighs the execution of these drug smugglers. The issue of Bali Nine, has been at the centre of very heated debates for months and has been an issue that made Indonesia and Australia relation broken down. Bali nine is a group of Drug smugglers that located in Bali, the leaders of the drug smugglers have been captured …show more content…
But justice is justice. If one has made a guilt, he or she has to be punished, Neither it is a death sentence or imprisoned until the end of life, Especially if the crime is about illegal drugs. Indonesia has a strict law about illegal drugs, even if someone use a small amount of illegal drug such as 0,1 mg of illegal drug, he or she can be punished by the Indonesian police. Eventhough the author said that Indonesia has succeeded in rehabilitating its prisoners where a number of others have failed, doesn’t mean that every criminal have rights to be rehabilitated, drug users that rehabilitated in indonesia’s rehabilitation shelter usually from the poor category people that have fallen into a drug organization by …show more content…
So in that case ,it is not a big deal to execute drug smugglers because they made Bali a dirty place with their drugs. Illegal drugs such as heroin could destroy the morality of Indonesian young generation. If tons of heroin are spread to tip of Indonesia, our future generation will be corrupt. Drug abuse kills about 200,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new United Nations (UN) report. Global treatment for drug abuse would cost $250 billion per year if everyone who needed help received proper care, according to the UN. Thomas also declared that it is not morally excusable to take away someone's life; justice should be tempered with mercy and civilisation must rise above the worst in us and like the Phoenix see where good come from evil. I hardly agree with his statement there about human right about life, but right now, we are talking about the future of Indoe=nesia. Indonesia is a developing country, unlike Australia that is already an developed country . Indonesia have to make their people developed so that Indonesia can compete with other country in Asia or maybe World . Easy for Thomas to say that it is a small deal if drugs contaminate Indonesia only in Bali. But Thomas don’t know if those drugs can expand to sabang or