Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The attorney general office has ordered for the preparation of execution of 11 death row convicts.

The order was issued on Thursday for the the prosecutors in charge of the execution , chief spokesman of the attorney general office Tony Tribagus Spontana said here on Friday.

The order came after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso for a review of her case last month.

Mary Jane from the Philippines was already moved from the Wirogunan prison in Yogyakarta to the island of Nusakambangan off southern Central Java, where the country already executed a number of death row convicts earlier.

Mary Jane arrived on the island early in the morning of Friday.

Mary Jane, arrested by the Yogyakartas Adisucipto port authorities, carrying 2.6 kilograms of heroine in 2010.

She was later sentenced to death by the Sleman district court.

Tony refused to confirm that the order for preparation and the moving of Mary Jane to Nusakambangan indicated that the time for execution is imminent .

"It is not an order for execution and it not a notification for the convicts," Tony said.

Altogether 10 death row convicts mostly on drug smuggling and trafficking are facing execution after their appeal for lenience were turned down by President Joko Widodo.

The president has said he would reject all appeals for leniency from drug convicts he blamed for the death of around 50 drug users in Indonesian every day.

Indonesia has received strong protests from a number of countries against the execution .(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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