
A KontraS report shows Indonesia's death row population rose to 639 as of April from 596 in August 2025, raising questions about continued capital punishment rulings despite an unofficial moratorium on executions.
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Indonesia maintains an unofficial moratorium on executions while courts continue to hand down death sentences, resulting in a growing death row population.
A new report on the persistent use of capital punishment in Indonesia's courts has raised questions about the rulings despite an unofficial moratorium on executions.
There were 639 people on death row in Indonesia as of April, an increase from 596 as of August 2025, according to a report by the Indonesian Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) published in October.

The State Council executive meeting passed in principle the Price Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft Amendment), proposing to control low-price and disorderly competition in accordance with laws and regulations. The article elaborates on the core significance of governing low-price and disorderly competition, the effectiveness of governance in recent years, the main contents of the revised draft, and the requirements for supporting rules and platform economic supervision, aiming to guide the market from "fighting for low prices" to "fighting for value, innovation, and services."

The Supreme People's Procuratorate released a typical case in which many game players were "unboxed" online and were raped online. The Chengdu Procuratorate cooperated with the public security organs to investigate the case, and six defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for the crimes of infringing on citizens' personal information, picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

A woman surnamed Wu suspected that her husband surnamed Liu was having an affair with a woman surnamed Shen. She secretly took 93 screenshots of their LINE and Instagram conversations while her husband was sleeping, and used this to tell Shen that she was violating her spousal rights. The Keelung District Court sentenced Wu to 40 days of detention and fined her 40,000 yuan, finding that the right to privacy is higher than the right to spouse.

Zheng Nan, a cleaning team driver at the Huatan Township Office, was employed more than 20 years ago and was fired three times from 2019 to 2024. Regarding the third dismissal in September 2024, the Supreme Court rejected the township office’s appeal at the end of October and ruled that Zheng Nan won the case and should be reinstated and paid the salary during the dismissal period. The Supervisory Yuan corrected the township office in February 2025, finding that its frequent punishments and dismissals violated the principle of proportionality and procedural legitimacy and harmed labor rights.

A nursing officer surnamed Ye from the Tri-Service General Hospital was found guilty of transferring level 4 drugs for providing sleeping pills for personal use to friends. The military decided to remove him from his post and suspend his appointment for three years. The Supreme Administrative Court believed that the military did not consider the circumstances of the case and regarded dismissal as the minimum punishment, violating the principle of proportionality. It revoked the original sanction and ordered the Third General Administration to impose another appropriate sanction. The entire case was confirmed.

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Fiscal and Taxation Law Research Society of the Chongqing Law Society and the Western Legal and Taxation Integration Forum were held at Southwest University of Political Science and Law on the 7th. Representatives from the national fiscal and taxation law circles and more than 20 practical departments participated in the meeting. Focusing on the theme of "Theoretical Innovation and System Implementation of Fiscal and Taxation Law during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period", discussions were held on topics such as platform economic taxation, carbon trading tax treatment, value-added tax reform, and the legal framework for urban renewal taxes and fees.