Bali bombers execution will take place before the fasting month: Attorney general

Attorney general Hendarman Supandji expects the execution of the three Islamic militants convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings to take place before the fasting month.

"I hope it will be held before the fasting month," Supandji said in Jakarta on Monday.

The attorney general also said that he had received information about the rejection of the three's final appeals by the Supreme Court, but had not yet received a copy of the decision, as it was still at the Denpasar District Court.

Hendarman said that with decision, the execution of Ali Ghufron, Imam Samudra and Amrozi Nurhasyim for the attacks that killed 202 people, legally could be held because they have decided not to ask for appeal to the President for clemency -- their only remaining way to avoid the death sentence.

The three convicts have said they will not do this because such a request requires an admission of wrongdoing.

"It means that justice process has finished so the execution can legally take place," Supandji said.(**)