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View all search resultsVice President Jusuf Kalla said the government would take into account different reactions, including the Australian governmentâs opposition, when considering its plan to execute two Australians on death row
ice President Jusuf Kalla said the government would take into account different reactions, including the Australian government's opposition, when considering its plan to execute two Australians on death row.
'All points of view from numerous sides will become part of our attention and concentration,' he said here on Thursday.
Kalla denied that the planned execution of the two Australians would be suspended at the recent request of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and said the suspension was entirely based on technical reasons.
He declined to go into details since the government has yet to announce when the 11 death row convicts, including the two Australians, would be executed.
He said the government was still thinking about numerous matters in connection with the execution plan.
However, he said that despite the suspension, the execution would be conducted in accordance with the legal process.
Two Australian drug smugglers on death row, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, will be moved to Nusakambangan in Central Java this week in preparation for their imminent execution, but the planned execution has sparked increasing protest from numerous countries, including the UN and the Australian government.
Abbott called on the Indonesian government to remember Australia's great contributions to Aceh following the powerful earthquake and tsunami that paralyzed the province in 2004 and to repay them by cancelling the two Australians' executions.
Separately, Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop thanked Kalla after the Indonesian government considered suspending the executions.
The spokesman for the Vice President, Husain Abdullah, said that the Australian foreign minister expressed her thanks to the Vice President through an international call from Canberra.
'The (Australian) foreign minister thanked the Vice President because the Indonesian government has decided to suspend the executions,' he said as quoted by kompas.com.
He also said that Kalla explained during the telephone conversation that the suspension was purely based on technical reasons and it had nothing to do with Australia's political pressure.
'The foreign minister understood. The essence of the talks was that the Australian government is prepared to cooperate with Indonesia,' said Husain. (rms)(++++)
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