Explore documented Indonesian criminal cases with legal outcomes separated from allegations and unresolved questions. New files are added only when reliable sourcing supports a substantive account.
Cases with a verified conviction, adjudicated outcome or other sufficiently definitive resolution.
Nasrudin Zulkarnaen was shot after leaving a Tangerang golf course in 2009. Multiple defendants were convicted in the contract-killing case; Antasari Azhar's 18-year conviction survived appeals but remained publicly contested.
Open case file →Sheila von Wiese-Mack was killed in Bali in 2014; Indonesian courts convicted Tommy Schaefer and Heather Mack, and later U.S. proceedings added a federal conspiracy conviction for Mack.
Open case file →Suradji was convicted of murdering 42 women and girls; the sentence survived later remedies and he was executed in 2008.
Open case file →Four civilians were killed; multiple facilitators were convicted and Aman Abdurrahman later received a final death sentence.
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Two defendants were convicted of premeditated murder and ultimately received life imprisonment.
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Jessica Kumala Wongso was convicted of premeditated murder; the conviction survived appeals and judicial reviews.
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The attacks killed 202 people. Numerous participants were convicted in Indonesian courts.
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Eight-year-old Engeline was killed in Denpasar in 2015; her adoptive mother received life imprisonment.
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Environmental defender Salim Kancil was killed after opposing sand mining; multiple defendants were convicted.
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Four detainees were killed; military courts convicted soldiers based on their respective roles.
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Very Idham Henyansyah was linked to 11 killings and received a death sentence that survived judicial review.
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Six people died during a home robbery; defendants received death and life sentences.
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Former police general Ferdy Sambo was convicted of premeditated murder and ultimately received life imprisonment.
Open case file →Radar Bali journalist Anak Agung Prabangsa was murdered in 2009 after reporting on alleged corruption. I Nyoman Susrama was convicted of masterminding the killing and received life imprisonment.
Open case file →Cases in which responsibility remains unresolved, materially incomplete or legally contested.
Police linked a West Java fraud-and-murder network to nine deaths. Wowon Erawan, Solihin and Dede Solehudin received life sentences upheld on appeal for the three adjudicated Bekasi murders, while the broader death series was not resolved in one final proceeding.
Open case file →Multiple juvenile and adult defendants were convicted, while one alleged participant remained outside the completed prosecutions.
Open case file →Twelve people were killed and about 150 injured. Multiple participants were convicted, but the complete alleged command structure was not adjudicated in one proceeding.
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Pollycarpus Priyanto was convicted, but no court definitively identified a mastermind.
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Lower-court convictions were overturned, leaving responsibility for the 1993 killing unresolved.
Open case file →Bernas journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin, known as Udin, died after a 1996 attack at his Yogyakarta home. The only prosecuted suspect was acquitted, and the killing remains unresolved.
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