REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Head of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency (BIN), Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Marciano Norman has asked the Australian government to ensure the security of the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Sydney.
"We ask the Australian intelligence and police to look for those responsible for splattering red liquid around the Indonesian Consulate in Sydney and ensure the security of Indonesian diplomats," Marciano Norman said here on Wednesday.
According to Marciano, the Australian police should provide additional security.
"The Australian government should provide more security for Indonesian diplomats," he affirmed.
He also urged Australian authorities to investigate the incident wherein a balloon filled with liquid was pelted at the nation's consulate 06.00 A.M. local time on Tuesday morning.
"They have evidence. So, they should investigate the case," Marciano stated.
Earlier, a professor observed that Australia should ensure the security of Indonesian diplomats there in the run-up to the execution of two Australian convicts in Indonesia.
"The government of Indonesia needs to ask the Australian police to ensure the security of its diplomats and representative offices in that country ahead of the executions," Hikmahanto Juwana, a professor of international law at the University of Indonesia, stated here on Wednesday.
Indonesia deploys its police officers at the embassies of friendly countries and the residences of foreign diplomats, he pointed out, adding that Australia should do the same in the wake of the imminent execution of the Bali Nine pair from Australia, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Juwana affirmed that Australia would be blamed if it failed to guarantee the security of Indonesian diplomats and its consulate offices in the country in accordance with the international law.
The execution of drug offenders can happen any time soon as two Australians and a Cordovan death row convicts were brought to Nusakambangan island in Central Java on Wednesday to face a firing squad.
The two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who were members of the Bali Nine and were convicted of heroin smuggling in 2005, and Raheem Agbaje Salami of Cordoba, Spain, have been taken to Nusakambangan island where they will be executed soon.
Chan and Sukumaran were taken from Krobokan Prison in Denpasar to Ngurah Rai Airport where they were flown to Cilacap in Central Java by a chartered Wing Air plane with registration number ATR-72-600 PK-WGO amid heavy rain at 6.50 A.M. local time on Wednesday.
Escorted by two Sukhois and two F-16 fighter planes, the Wing Air plane with Chan and Sukumaran arrived at Cilacap's Tunggul Wulung Airport at 8.14 A.M. local time.
From the airport, they were transferred to the execution island of Nusakambangan under tight security; they arrived at the prison there at 8.50 A.M. on Wednesday.
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