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Indonesian laws prescribe capital punishment for drug trafficking. Jokowi has stated that he refused to grant any clemency for drug offenders facing execution. Judicial executions in Indonesia are carried out pursuant to a Presidential Decree following a death sentence imposed by a trial court. An international and legal controversy arose after it was revealed the president did not have or read the documents related to the clemency applications when he refused the clemency requests of two foreign nationals. Jokowi argued that Indonesia is currently in a state of emergency over drug-related crime, asserting that "the number of (illegal drug users) who need rehabilitation is nearly 4.5 million people," adding that 1.2 million drug users could not be rehabilitated and nearly 50 of them died each day. The Jakarta Globe reported that the statistics were faulty. In 2015, Australia, Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors from Indonesia following the executions of their citizens. Australia proposed that issues around the proposed execution of its citizens Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, who in 2007 had been denied the right for judicial review by the Indonesia's Constitutional Court because they were not Indonesian citizens, be put before the International Court of Justice. On 29 April 2015, however, both men were executed. In response, Australia reduced its foreign aid to Indonesia by nearly half. Former Indonesian constitutional court chief justice Jimly Asshiddiqie, who was a key player in the anti-death penalty lobby in Jakarta in the lead-up to the 29 April executions, said the push for the men's execution had come from Jokowi personally.

In the same year, Jokowi granted Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino who had been sentenced to death by an Indonesian court, a last-minute temporary reprieve, after Philippine President Benigno Aquino III personally appealed to Jokowi for clemency. Her family maintained that "she was duped by a drug syndicate into flying to Indonesia in 2010 with more than five pounds of heroin hidden in a suitcase." The stay of execution was issued "after someone suspected of recruiting her and tricking her into carrying drugs to Indonesia turned themselves in to authorities in the Philippines." Serge Atlaoui, a French citizen, was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of drug crimes. Corinne Breuze, the French ambassador to Indonesia, and Francois Hollande, the French President warned Jokowi that there would be "bilateral and diplomatic consequences" if the execution went ahead. He was set to be executed in April, but was granted a temporary reprieve due to a pending appeal.

Jokowi's staunch pro-capital punishment stance has drawn international scrutiny, not only as it could harm Indonesia's foreign relations with the native countries of the condemned convicts, but also because it imperils Indonesia's own citizens facing the death penalty abroad. Amnesty International condemned the executions saying they showed a "complete disregard for due process and human rights safeguards." In July 2016, the third execution wave was set to be carried out. Around 130 people remain on death row in Indonesia.