Indonesian president to be 'firm' on drug dealers in bad news for British grandmother on death row Sandiford, 57, was arrested in May 2012 after cocaine valued at around £2.4 million (£1.6 million) was found during a routine check of her suitcase as she arrived on a flight into the holiday island of Bali. She had come in from Bangkok in Thailand, and was accused by police of being at the centre of a drug ring involving three other Britons. But on Thursday H.M. Prasetyo, the new attorney general said President Joko Widodo - who took power last month - was not planning to abolish capital punishment and would provide no clemency for people trafficking drugs into the country. The attorney general said, in comments reported by The Jakarta Globe, that Mr Widodo "said he will be firm." "We want to send a warning [to international drug syndicates] that Indonesia doesn't want to be a stopping place, market or even producer," he said. Mr Widodo's predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has pardoned four drug dealers on death row since he came to power in 2004. However, he has also made it clear before he left power that he routinely turned down most "almost all" such requests on behalf of foreign nationals, saying that Indonesians do not get such leniency. Basuni Masyarif, deputy attorney general, said the government will execute at least 10 prisoners each year, in a bid to reduce the backlog of people handed the death penalty. As of 2013, campaigners against the death penalty recorded that there are 113 prisoners awaiting execution but since then, more than 16 have been sentenced to death by Indonesian judges. It was not clear when the death sentence on Sandiford would be carried out.