Prime Minister John Key won't be shying away from raising New Zealand's "deep opposition" to the death penalty when he meets with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo.
Mr Key touched down in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday evening, kicking off a whirlwind, two-day visit aimed at boosting links between the two countries.
While trade is the major focus of the trip, Mr Key says he will be raising human rights issues, including Indonesia's continued use of the death penalty, in his meeting with Mr Widodo on Monday afternoon.
New Zealand was quick to condemn the executions of the Bali Nine ringleaders, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, in April last year.
While Kiwi man Antony de Malmanche avoided the same fate when he was sentenced two months later, he will spend 15 years in a Bali jail for drug trafficking.
There are more than 200 people on death row in Indonesia, just over a quarter of them for drug-related crimes.
"As we say to all of these countries, while we absolutely have sympathy for what they're dealing with, and while those who commit crimes should be held to account, there are better ways of doing it than the death penalty," Mr Key told reporters.
Indonesia's attorney-general indicated last month that 16 people were set to face the firing squad this year, and that there was the budget to execute another 30 in 2017.
