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Australian representatives visits Bali Nine duo in Nusakambangan
An entourage of Australian representatives visited the Nusakambangan correctional facility in Cilacap, Central Java, on Sunday morning, following an announcement that 10 death row inmates, including two Australian drug smugglers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, would be executed on Tuesday
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n entourage of Australian representatives visited the Nusakambangan correctional facility in Cilacap, Central Java, on Sunday morning, following an announcement that 10 death row inmates, including two Australian drug smugglers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, would be executed on Tuesday.
'Their families have arrived in Nusakambangan. In previous cases, visits like this indicated the imminent execution of a death row inmate,' said Sumarno, 45, a resident of an area near the Wijayapura ferry terminal, which serves Nusakambangan prison island, as quoted by kompas.com on Sunday.
The Australian representatives and the families of Chan and Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine drug ring, arrived at the Wijayapura quay on two minibuses with diplomatic plate numbers. At the ferry terminal, they boarded a small vessel used to transport passengers from the port to Nusakambangan prison island.
It was estimated that the entourage crossing to Nusakambangan comprised nine foreigners. None of the visitors gave comments to journalists who had been in the area since Saturday.
'They are families of the Australian inmates in Nusakambangan,' said one of the security officers at the Wijayapura terminal.
The terminal is currently teeming with journalists from national and foreign media outlets, as well as local residents curious about the second batch of executions under President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's administration.
Earlier, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) released the names of 10 death row convicts to be simultaneously executed on Tuesday at Nusakambangan.
The condemned are Chan and Sukumaran from Australia, Raheem Agbaje Salami from Nigeria, Zainal Abidin from Indonesia, Serge Areski Atlaoui from France, Rodrigo Gularte from Brazil, Silvester Obiekwe Nwaolise alias Mustofa from Nigeria, Martin Anderson alias Belo from Ghana, Okwudili Oyatanze from Nigeria and Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines.
Veloso was the last of the group of death row inmates transferred to Nusakambangan when was moved from Wirogunan penitentiary in Yogyakarta on Friday. She is currently in isolation at Besi prison, as are Chan, Sukumaran and Salami.
Four others, namely, Zainal Abidin, Atlaoui, Gularte and Oyatanze, are isolated in Pasir Putih prison while Anderson and Nwaolise are in Batu prison. (ebf)
