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View all search resultsAG ready for execution of 11 more death-row convicts
Attorney General HM Prasetyo says his office is ready to execute 11 more death row convicts, including two members of the so-called Bali Nine
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ttorney General HM Prasetyo says his office is ready to execute 11 more death row convicts, including two members of the so-called Bali Nine.
He said the execution date had not been set but it would be conducted this month.
"It will be decided under the guidance of the Attorney General's Office," he said.
He pointed out that the executions would be conducted after the death-row convicts' pleas for clemency were turned down.
In addition to the 11, he said the plea of Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, alias Mustopa, a Nigerian citizen, who was recently caught distributing drugs from prison, had also been rejected by President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo.
Prasetyo added that the Nigerian's execution would be prioritized as he was still engaging in drug trafficking from his cell.
The AGO has received presidential decrees containing the President's rejection of amnesty to 11 death row convicts.
AGO spokesman Tony T. Spontana said Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, two Australians who were members of the Bali Nine, were two of eight drug convicts that would be executed. The three others were murder convicts.
Myuran and Andrew, detained at the Kerobokan Penitentiary in Denpasar, were arrested in April 2005 and sentenced to death for attempting to smuggle 8.2 kilograms of heroin to Australia from Bali.
Seven others - Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tach Duc Than Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush and Martin Stephens ' are still serving their prison sentences at Kerobokan prison.
Myuran's relatives sent an open letter to the President on Friday, appealing to for him not to go ahead with the execution of Myuran as the convict was 'a good person.'
The AGO recently executed five death-row convicts in Nusakambangan and one in Boyolali, Central Java.
Prasetyo said on Wednesday that Nusakambangan was the most suitable location for the executions as the site was far from any residential areas.
Separately, National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Anang Iskandar fully supported the planned executions, which he expected would increase the deterrent effect for drug dealers.
In addition to the two Australians, three Indonesian citizens - Syofial alias Iyen bin Azwar, Harun bin Ajis and Sargawi alias Ali bin Sanusi who was sentenced to death for premeditated murder ' will be executed, as well Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines, Serge Areski Atlaoui of France, Martin Anderson alias Belo of Ghana, Zainal Abidin of Indonesia, Raheem Agbaje Salami of Spain and Rodrigo Gularte of Brazil. (rms)(+++)
