"I believe the Australian people are grown-up to react responsibly. Moreover, I saw a survey result that showed how mature they are. So, that is the way I think," Indonesia`s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs AM Fachir said.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesias Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs AM Fachir said he believed Australians will show maturity while reacting to the death penalty given to two Australian nationals, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, convicted on narcotics charges.

Fachir made the statement here on Monday while responding to Australias disapproval of the death penalty given to Chan and Myuran in 2006 and whose clemency pleas were rejected by President Joko Widodo in December 2014.

"I believe the Australian people are grown-up to react responsibly. Moreover, I saw a survey result that showed how mature they are. So, that is the way I think," he stated.

Fachir referred to a polling organized by Roy Morgan earlier in January. According to it, 52 percent Australians agreed that drug traffickers convicted in another country and sentenced to death should be executed.

However, Fachri added, the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra has issued a security advisory for Indonesian citizens in Australia, asking them to remain more cautious.

Responding to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishops statement that Australians might boycott Indonesia, particularly Bali Island, to express their disapproval of the death penalty handed down to Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, Fachri described it as overreacting.

"I think it is rather too much. Those who want to travel to Indonesia are (Australian) tourists not the government," he noted.

Fachri also emphasized that the death penalty must be seen from a legal perspective and it was part of Indonesias positive laws.

"There is no international law that bans us from following that," he added.

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are the members of "Bali Nine," a group of nine drug traffickers who were arrested in Bali when they were attempting to smuggle narcotics from Thailand to Australia in 2005.(*)

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