Amit, it would have been more to the point if the speakers at the funeral service had concentrated on the reason that the two miscreants had been in the position that they found themselves. There were more lessons that could have been learned too. One would have been not to trust in a non existant god to save him.
David

Indonesia is 100% correct in proceeding with executions of the drug convicts.

Last thing Indonesia need are foreign drug cartels operating with impunity. We'd rather nip the cartel threat in the bud by shooting them dead before it grew into a cancer like what happened in Colombia or Mexico.

Proud to be Indonesian thank you for your comments, the Australian Government, Media and TV stations created a circus out of the whole thing, most Australians I know agreed that it was Indonesian law and had to be upheld, they were after all drug mules and caused pain to other members of the drug cartel which they created, their lives now ruined by being in the drug money game which never eventuated for them.
The sight of this Government lighting candles for these drug mules was sickening to say the least, other far worthy people deserve to have candles lit for them, not criminals

Amit Tewari, "Lastly, .. medical graduates are in abundant supply - it is actually the training positions that are rare"

You are raising a very sore point for Australians: that universities are in cahoots with major hospitals to reserve medical trailing vacancies for the international students they make their money from.

In turn, the federal government (both sides) doles out free citizenships to international students, including medical students. For a relatively small up-front investment the international students and their families they import through family reunion make a substantial profit.

Returning to the trafficking of dangerous, highly addictive drugs, it is unimaginable that someone who trained as a doctor would not also be appreciative of the problems faced by Second and Third World countries in stemming the supply of drugs when there are international drug cartels involved in the highly profitable trade.

There are indirect effects of the trade too, one of which in Indonesia's case is the explosion of HIV linked to drugs and the very concerning leap of HIV to young heterosexual women who are or will be having children. What about them?

Especially where commercial quantities of heroin and methamphetamine are concerned it IS a war that is being fought 24/365. The two convicted and duly executed were key figures and stand-over men who also recruited others.

The maudlin politically-correct sentimentality shown towards the executed convicts typically has no room for any consideration of the victims and over-burdened health systems.

My, "You are raising a very sore point for Australians: that universities are in cahoots with major hospitals to reserve medical trailing vacancies for the international students they make their money from",

should be,

"You are raising a very sore point for Australians: that universities are in cahoots with major hospitals to reserve medical TRAINING vacancies for the international students they make their money from".

Proud to be Indonesian
The Indonesian Government pleads for the lives of its citizens when they are sentenced to death in other countries. Seems highly hypocritical to me.