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Executions near as officials visit prison for final check
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Visiting officials from the Law and Human Rights Ministry and the ministry's Central Java office disembark at Wijayapura harbor on Nusakambangan prison island on Thursday, May 12. (thejakartapost.com/Agus Maryono)
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span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The execution of death row inmates looks to be near as officials from the Law and Human Rights Ministry visited the Nusakambangan prison Island in Central Java’s Cilacap regency on Tuesday.
The visit was aimed at checking the location to ensure everything was set for the executions to go ahead, said Molyanto, the ministry’s head for the penitentiary division in Central Java.
However, no details have been released on the impending executions.
"We also have not yet obtained the list of the names of the convicts who will be executed. We do not know their number either," Molyanto told thejakartapost.com on Thursday.
Previously, Central Java Police spokesman Sr. Comr. A. Liliek Darmanto said at least 15 convicts, including 10 foreigners, would face the firing squad in the third round of executions of drug convicts.
The police had received the data, however they could not disclose the names of the convicts, as the authority to do so rested with the Attorney General's Office, Liliek said.
Central Java Police have prepared 180 Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to carry out the executions.
Attorney General M. Prasetyo said the third round of executions was only a matter of choosing the day, as all the preparations had been completed.
Prior to the execution, authorities have tightened security on Indonesia's notorious Nusakambangan prison island. Prison authorities have installed CCTV around the prison complex, including at Wijayapura harbor, the only access port from Cilacap.
Moreover, authorities had assigned additional police personnel to guard more intensely each prison located in the Nusakambangan complex, Molyanto said on Monday.
"So we can carry out the planned execution smoothly," he told thejakartapost.com.
The installation of CCTV was to support the monitoring of inmates amid a lack of security personnel.
Around eight security personnel were guarding each of the seven prions on the island, Molyanto said, adding that the ideal number would be at least 15 guards to maintain security at each of the prisons that held up to 200 inmates each.
Nusakambangan has seven prisons standing 3 kilometers apart from each other. Around 1,250 inmates are detained in the complex, including 70 convicts of terrorism offenses and 62 death row convicts. (afr/rin)
