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Nusakambangan ready for transfer of Bali Nine duo
All is ready: The head of the Law and Human Rights Ministryâs Central Java office, Asminan Mirza Zulkarnain, says Nusakambangan island is ready for the transfer of death row inmates including two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the Bali Nine drug-trafficking ring
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All is ready: The head of the Law and Human Rights Ministryâs Central Java office, Asminan Mirza Zulkarnain, says Nusakambangan island is ready for the transfer of death row inmates including two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the Bali Nine drug-trafficking ring. (JP/Agus Maryono) (JP/Agus Maryono)
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span class="inline inline-center">All is ready: The head of the Law and Human Rights Ministry's Central Java office, Asminan Mirza Zulkarnain, says Nusakambangan island is ready for the transfer of death row inmates including two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the Bali Nine drug-trafficking ring. (JP/Agus Maryono)
The head of the Law and Human Rights Ministry's Central Java office, Asminan Mirza Zulkarnain, has said prisons on Nusakambangan island in Cilacap, Central Java, are ready for the transfer of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, two Australian death row inmates convicted on drug trafficking charges.
'We have many cells and they are ready for the transfer of death row inmates who will be executed. For the Bali Nine duo [Chan and Sukumaran], we are preparing Batu Penitentiary,' Mirza said.
He was speaking to journalists after he inspected the readiness of prisons on Nusakambangan as the second phase of executions of death row inmates approached.
As reported earlier, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) on Tuesday announced it had delayed the transfer of the two Australian convicts from Kerobokan Penitentiary in Bali to Nusakambangan. It was rumored that the delay was due to the lack of readiness of prisons on the island.
'I insist that this is not true. We are ready for the transfer of the death row inmates at anytime. Nusakambangan is ready to accommodate them until the execution,' said Mirza, who was accompanied by the head of the office's correctional institution division, Yuspahruddin.
Five of six people who were on death row for drug trafficking charges were executed in Nusakambangan last month. (ebf)(+++)
