By Ainur Rohmah
JAKARTA
Two Australians on death row in Indonesia will be transferred to their place of execution Wednesday, a senior justice official told local media Tuesday.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be taken from Kerobokan on Bali to Nusa Kambanganon prison island, Chief Prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso said, quoted by the Kompas news website.
"Coordination is completed," he said after a meeting between police, military and other officials. “Displacement [will be] held tomorrow afternoon."
Samiarso said the pair, both from Sydney, would be transported to Nusa Kambanganon, off the southern coast of Central Java, by military aircraft.
The duo, ringleaders of "the Bali Nine" heroin trafficking gang, are likely to be executed by firing squad within days of arriving at Batu prison, one of seven prison facilities on the 30 kilometer (18 mile) island.
Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo previoiusly said the sentences on the Australians and eight other drug convicts would be carried out "ASAP."
They will receive 72 hours’ notice before their deaths and will be able to receive visits from their families, lawyers and a religious adviser on Nusa Kambangan.
Chan, 31, and 33-year-old Sukumaran’s lawyers have launched further legal action and have claimed the men should not be transferred or executed while it is ongoing.
Prasetyo said Monday that the legal appeals would not delay the executions. Following President Joko Widodo’s rejection of clemency appeals, Prasetyo said subsequent appeals were irrelevant.
"We will immediately carry out the executions when the preparation is completed," he said Tuesday. "The principle is that once they are there they should not wait too long in their cell."
The other prisoners -- from Nigeria, Ghana, Brazil, France, the Philippines, Spain and Indonesia -- will be transported from prisons at Madiun and Yogyakarta on Java island.
Filipino Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso on Tuesday had her request for a judicial review into her case adjourned to Wednesday.
She was sentenced to death for smuggling 2.6 kilograms (6 pounds) of heroin into Indonesia from Malaysia in 2010.
Her lawyer, Agus Salim, claimed Veloso was unable to follow her original trial due to the incompetence of the translator, the Detik website reported. "The defendant was silent and did not understand the proceedings and suddenly [she was] condemned to death," Salim said.
Two prisoners -- Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte and Serge Areski Atlaoui, from France, received visits from their families on Nusa Kambangan on Tuesday.
Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly said the prison was ready to receive the remaining prisoners.
