REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LANGKAWI -- Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi declined to comment on Indonesia's plan to carry out the execution of convicts sentenced to death, stating that the decision made will not be changed.
"We have delivered all messages. We told the attorney general that Indonesia's decision remained unchanged. So I don't think we should continue to talk about it," Minister Marsudi said while accompanying Vice President Jusuf Kalla to a meeting of four heads of states here on Tuesday.
The minister made the remarks in connection with the request made by Filipino President Benigno Aquino. On the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit, Aquino met with President Joko Widodo to seek pardon for Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a citizen of the Philippines on death row, who is facing execution in Indonesia.
Veloso is one of the 10 convicts on death row to be executed by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) soon.
The ten convicts facing execution are Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Australia; Raheem Agbaje Salami, Silvester Obiekwe Nwaolise alias Mustofa, and Okwudili Oyatanze from Nigeria; Zainal Abidin from Indonesia; Rodrigo Gularte from Brazil; Martin Anderson alias Belo from Ghana; Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso from the Philippines; and Serge Areski Atlaoui from France.
However, French citizen Atlaoui has escaped the imminent execution as a judicial review of his case is ongoing at the State Administrative Court (PTUN).
His execution has been postponed to until after the PTUN comes to a decision.
In addition, spokesman for the AGO Tony Tribagus Spontana said on Monday that the delay in Atlaoui's execution was not due to pressure from the French government.
"It is not because of pressure from the French president," he affirmed.
Challenging his death sentence, the Frenchman filed a review petition just before the April 23 deadline.
"He registered the review petition in the last minute, just before the deadline of 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 23," Spontana pointed out.
As the AGO respects the legal process, it decided to exclude Atlaoui from the list of convicts to be executed, he added.
