In a statement, UN Secretary General Ban urged Indonesia's President Joko Widodo to "urgently consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment in Indonesia, with a view toward abolition".
"The secretary-general urges president Joko Widodo to urgently consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment in Indonesia, with a view toward abolition," a spokesman for Ban said.
Plans for Wednesday's executions attracted international condemnation, including from the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who called on Widodo to "urgently consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment in Indonesia, with a view toward abolition".
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, joined the chorus of opposition to the executions on Sunday, asking that Widodo "urgently consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment in Indonesia, with a view toward abolition".
With a few exceptions, public reaction to abolition has been muted and pressure to restore capital punishment weak.
There was a more sanguine response to abolition at the MLA.
In November, he decided to recommend to the General Assembly gradual abolition of slavery, either for the whole state, or for the counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountains if the former could not be attained, but with a goal for abolition for the whole state in time.
They continued to contribute liberally, from a small income, to the abolition movement.
