Overview
- Indonesian authorities handed Siegfried Mets, 74, and Ali Tokman, 65, to Dutch officials in Jakarta ahead of a Monday evening flight to the Netherlands.
- Mets was convicted in 2008 over a shipment of 600,000 ecstasy pills and had been on death row, while Tokman received a life sentence after a 2015 death sentence for smuggling slightly more than 6 kilograms of MDMA was commuted.
- Indonesia’s deputy minister said both men will continue serving their sentences in the Netherlands, while a Dutch diplomat noted their status will fall under Dutch law once they arrive.
- The Netherlands requested repatriation on humanitarian grounds, with officials citing Mets’ broken hand and Tokman’s high blood pressure.
- The move extends Indonesia’s recent practice of returning foreign prisoners on humanitarian grounds, in a system with about 530 people on death row, including nearly 100 foreigners.