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uestions around uncertainty facing drug convicts awaiting executions have apparently been answered with the Central Java Police indicating 13 of the convicts will soon be executed before the police’s firing squad.

“There will be 13 drug convicts [executed]. We have prepared a firing squad from the Central Java Police’s Brimob unit. The site for the execution will be the Limus Buntu field, Nusakambangan,” Central Java Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Aloysius Liliek Darmanto told the media in Semarang on Monday.

Separately, head of the Central Java Law and Human Rights Office correctional institution, Molyanto, confirmed that more than 10 drug convicts would be executed.

Officer Liliek Darmanto also revealed that the police had completed all preparatory arrangements for the executions, including transferring the 13 convicts to Nusakambangan over the past week. The last three people to be transported to Nusakambangan were the three convicts from Tembesi prison in Batam, who arrived on the prison island late Sunday evening.

“The three convicts from Batam are Suryanto, Agus Hadi and Pudjo. They are all drug convicts,” head of Nusakambangan’s Batu Prison Abdul Haris said, adding that there were currently 59 convicts in Nusakambangan awaiting their executions.