Indonesia sends home two Dutch convicts, one on death row, after repatriation deal

Indonesia's Chief Minister for Law and Human Rights, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, and Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia, Marc Gerritsen, attend a meeting as they agree on the transfer of two Dutch nationals convicted of drug crimes, in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 2, 2025. Siegfried Mets, 73, was sentenced to death by a Jakarta court in 2008 for distributing drugs, and Ali Tokman, 64, was serving life imprisonment for smuggling more than 6 kilograms of the synthetic drug MDMA. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

JAKARTA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Two Dutch prisoners convicted of drug offences left Indonesia for the Netherlands on Monday night, after both nations signed a repatriation deal last week.

Siegfried Mets, 74, and Ali Tokman, 65, are the latest in a series of foreigners to be reprieved in the last year from death row or life terms in Indonesia, following five Australians, a British woman, a French man and a Philippine woman.