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s the Supreme Court (MA) is processing the case reviews of several death-row inmates, Attorney General M. Prasetyo has said his office will likely add or remove convicts scheduled for immediate execution.

The statement contradicts an earlier statement made by the Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO) that it would soon issue an execution date for 10 death row convicts, after the MA rejected case review petitions filed by two of the enlisted convicts.

Adding more convicts to the execution list means that the execution of the 10 inmates will not be conducted any time soon, as earlier suggested by the AGO.

Prasetyo said on Sunday that the AGO expected the Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta would soon transfer Philippine national Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso to the isolated Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap, Central Java, where nine other death row inmates had been sent earlier to wait for their execution.

The MA rejected her second case review petition on Wednesday.

A politician from the pro-government NasDem Party, Prasetyo said that renewing the list by adding more inmates was possible because the AGO had yet to determine the official date of the execution.

He elaborated that the additions could come from the convicts whose clemency appeals had been rejected by President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo.

President Jokowi turned down 64 clemency proposals in February.

'€œWe will update the current execution list. After Veloso is sent to Nusakambangan, there will be 10 inmates waiting for execution there. I cannot confirm now whether we will just go ahead with those 10 people or not because the situation is dynamic and more clemency proposals are also rejected so it is possible that more [inmates] will be put on the current list,'€ Prasetyo told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.

In addition to the plan to schedule more death row convicts to face the firing squad, Prasetyo said the AGO was also currently waiting for the MA'€™s decision on case review proposals filed by Serge Areski Atlaoui of France and Martin Anderson alias Belo of Ghana, who are among the nine inmates currently at Nusakambangan.

The South Jakarta District Court and Tangerang Court are slated to wrap up hearings for Atlaoui and Anderson, respectively, next week and subsequently will send their documents to the MA, which will decide whether to accept or to reject their case review petitions.

'€œThe court will hold the final hearing [for Atlaoui] sometime next week,'€ South Jakarta District Court spokesman Made Sutrisna told the Post on Sunday, adding that since the case had attracted public attention the MA would expedite its examination into the French national and was expected to make a final decision about two weeks after receiving his trial documents.

Meanwhile, Prasetyo said the AGO was waiting for the result of the legal steps taken by Bali Nine duo Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan of Australia, also among the nine convicts in Nusakambangan awaiting the firing squad.

Both are currently challenging a Jakarta State Administrative Court'€™s (PTUN) verdict for rejecting their plea to annul Jokowi'€™s rejection of their clemency proposals.

'€œIt is a weird legal process anyway, which is taken just to buy time to postpone their execution. One cannot challenge the President'€™s decision on clemency because it is subject to the President'€™s prerogative. A clemency request is not subject to an administrative decision that could be challenged through the PTUN,'€ Prasetyo said.

The other drug convicts facing imminent execution in Nusakambangan are Rodrigo Gularte of Brazil, Zainal Abidin of Indonesia and Raheem Agbaje Salami of Nigeria. Also slated to be executed are three convicted murderers '€” Syofial alias Iyen bin Azwar, Harun bin Ajis and Sargawi alias Ali bin Sanusi '€” all from Indonesia.