Overview
- The agreement covers Siegfried Mets, 74, who remains on death row for a 2008 ecstasy case, and Ali Tokman, 65, whose death sentence was reduced to life.
- Senior minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra signed the deal in Jakarta as Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel participated virtually.
- Mets and Tokman are scheduled to fly from Jakarta to Amsterdam on December 8, according to Indonesian officials.
- Indonesian authorities cited poor health and proximity to family as reasons for the transfer, which received presidential approval.
- The move continues recent repatriations of foreign convicts as Indonesia issues new death sentences but has not carried out executions since 2016.