REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Attorney General HM Prasetyo said his office has been ready to carry out the execution of 11 death row convicts whose clemency pleas had been rejected.
He stated here on Friday that the executions will be carried out as soon as a date is determined.
"No date has yet been determined. It will be decided under the guidance of the Attorney General's Office," he added.
He remarked that in principle, executions can be carried out after clemency pleas are rejected; even in the case of Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, alias Mustopa, a Nigerian citizen, who was recently found indulging in narcotics distribution even from jail.
Prasetyo stressed that the execution of the Nigerian citizen will be prioritized as he has still been operating narcotics distribution.
"Certainly, we will not allow it to happen," he added.
The AGO has received presidential decrees containing the rejection of the clemency appeals of 11 death row convicts, of which eight are drug traffickers and three are murder convicts.
According to AGO spokesman Tony T Spontana, two of the drug convicts are Australians, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan of the Bali Nine group, Tony added.
Bali Nine comprises nine Australians who were arrested in April 2005 and sentenced for attempting to smuggle 8.2 kilograms of heroin to Bali from Australia.
A Denpasar district court gave jail term to seven of the convicts in the group. They are Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tach Duc Than Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush, and Martin Stephens.
According to Tony, all the requirements and procedures for the execution of 11 convicts have been completed.
Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Commr. Gen. Anang Iskandar has extended full support for the executions, citing they will have a deterrent effect on drug dealers.
Anang said the most important factor of executions was their deterrent effect.
The other nine convicts facing execution are Indonesians Syofial, alias Iyen bin Azwar, Harun bin Ajis and Sargawi, alias Ali bin Sanusi, all convicted for premeditated murder; 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 Cordova, and Rodrigo Gularte of Brazil, all convicted in drug related cases.
President Joko Widodo has emphasized he will not be lenient with drug convicts.
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