The executions, carried out by firing squad shortly after midnight Sunday local time, were the first under Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo.
Citizens of Malawi, Nigeria and Vietnam were also executed, along with an Indonesian woman, officials said.
Brazi’s President Dilma Rousseff issued a statement expressing indignation at the execution of Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, saying the incident “severely affected” relations between the two countries. She also offered sympathies to Moreira’s family.
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Indonesia, which has extremely strict drug laws, resumed executions in 2013 after a four year break, but no executions were carried out in 2014.
Amnesty International’s research director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Rupert Abbott, said in a statement that the executions were “a seriously regressive move”.
“The new administration has taken office on the back of promises to make human rights a priority, but the execution of six people flies in the face of these commitments,” he said.
