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FRANCE ratcheted up pressure on Indonesia yesterday after the Jakarta administrative court said that it had no authority to overturn a presidential rejection of clemency for French citizen Serge Atlaoui.
Mr Atlaoui faces a firing squad for drug offences, setting the stage for diplomatic retaliation by France after executions of other foreigners strained relations with Australia and Brazil.
Indonesia resumed executions in 2013 and, so far this year, it has executed 14 people, mostly foreigners, convicted in drugs cases.
The judge said granting clemency was the sole prerogative of the president.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Paris was opposed to the death penalty “in all places and under all circumstances,” adding that France is “totally mobilised” in support of Mr Atlaoui.
