The 11 convicts include 8 convicted in drug cases and three in murder cases. Two among the drug convicts are Australians, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan of the Bali Nine group.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Attorney General Office said the death penalty of 11 more convicts whose appeals for clemency have been rejected by the president would soon be executed.

"The date is not yet fixed," the chief spokesman of the Attorney General Office Tony Tribagus Spontana said here on Wednesday.

The 11 convicts include 8 convicted in drug cases and three in murder cases.

Two among the drug convicts are Australians, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan of the Bali Nine group, Tony said.

The Bali Nine group include nine Australian arrested in April, 2005 and sentenced later for attempting to smuggle 8.2 kilograms of heroin to Bali from Australia.

A Denpasar district meted out jail punishment for the other seven Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tach Duc Than Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush and Martin Stephens .

Tony said all aspects had been met in connection with the procedure for the execution.

Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Comr.Gen. Anang Iskandar said BNN fully supports the execution to give a deterrent effect on drug dealers.

Anang said most important in the execution was deterrent effect.

The attorney general office said it had received a presidential decree rejecting appeals for clemency of the 11 people condemned to death

The other nine are Syofial alias Iyen bin Azwar, Harun bin Ajis and Sargawi alias Ali bin Sanusi -- all three Indonesian convicted for premeditated murder -- and the rest in drug cases including 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.

President Joko Widodo has said he would not give leniency for all drug convicts who make up around 60 percent of the countrys prison inmates.

Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands have been angered by the execution of the death penalty . Brazil and the Netherlands even recalled their ambassadors in protest of the execution last month.

On Wednesday, British Foreign Minister, Philip Hammond, who was on a visit here, expressed concerned that a Britisher is facing death execution .

Hammond, however, did not seek to lobby only to express concern, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said.

Retno said she had told Hammond the execution is in line with the standard of international law.

A Britisher, Lindsay Sandiford, is a death row inmate, convicted for possession of 4.7 kilograms of cocaine in Bali in 2012.

"Britain is against death sentence. We have abolished death sentence and we advocate abolition of death sentence," Hammond said.(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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