No decision has been made yet. We will announce it in time."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesia Attorney Generals Office has yet to determine the time and venue of the execution of two Australian drug convicts on death row.
"No decision has been made yet. We will announce it in time," AGO spokesman Tony T. Spontana stated here on Friday.
He reiterated that the plan to execute Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, both members of "Bali Nine" drug ring, will not change despite pressure from their countrys government.
"Execution will be carried out in line with the law and will not be influenced by pressure from anywhere," he noted.
He said 14 convicts will be executed this year. Their clemency pleas have been rejected, giving their sentences a permanent legal force.
President Joko Widodo rejected Andrew Chans request for clemency on January 17 and that of Myuran Sukumaran in December 2014.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be executed at the same time as they were nabbed together.
On January 18, the AGO executed six narcotic drug convicts, including five foreigners, who were on death row.
Among the six convicts who were shot to death were a Brazilian, a Dutch, a Vietnamese, a Malawian, a Nigerian, and an Indonesian woman.
The six convicts were the first batch of prisoners to be executed under the Jokowi government.
Indonesia currently has some 64 inmates on death row. The government plans to carry out executions every month.
The head of state recently said excessive drug abuse has put Indonesia in a state of emergency; the country has 4.5 million drug addicts who need rehabilitation.
Some 1.2 million drug addicts are in such dire conditions that rehabilitation is no longer an option for them. As many as 50 drug addicts die every day and 18 thousand die annually.
(Reporting by Riza Fahriza/Uu.H-YH/INE/KR-BSR/B003)
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