Indonesia returns two Dutch nationals convicted of drug offenses
Officials said the handover occurred after persistent coordination between Jakarta and The Hague, as noted by Indonesia’s deputy minister overseeing immigration and correctional affairs. The repatriation followed the two nations’ recent completion of a Practical Arrangement that outlines how such transfers should take place.
As the deputy minister stated, "The governments of Indonesia and the Netherlands have reached a Practical Arrangement agreement for the repatriation of two Dutch nationals convicted in narcotics cases, one named Siegfried Mets, who is sentenced to death, and the other, Ali Tokman, who is sentenced to life imprisonment."
Mets, 74, had been on death row since 2008 after being found guilty of attempting to bring hundreds of thousands of ecstasy tablets into the country. Tokman received a life sentence following his 2014 arrest at an airport in Surabaya, where authorities discovered several kilograms of illegal substances inside his luggage.
According to reports, Tokman had spent approximately 11 years serving his sentence in Indonesia before the transfer was carried out.
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