REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, CILACAP -- Three death row convicts of drug cases arrived on Wednesday morning at the execution island of Nusakambangan in Cilacap, Central Java, where they will face a firing squad soon.
The three are two Australian Bali Nine pair, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and Raheem Agbaje Salami, a Nigerian national.
Chan and Sukumaran were removed from Krobokan Prison in Denpasar to Ngurah Rai Airport where they were flown by chartered Wing Air plane with registration number ATR-72-600 PK-WGO at 6.50 am local time amid heavy rain to Cilacap, Central Java.
Escorted by two Sukhois and two F-16 fighter planes, the Wing Air plane that Chan and Sukumaran boarded arrived at at Cilacap's Tunggul Wulung Airport at 8.14 am local time.
From the airport, they were transferred and arrived at Nusakambangan island under a tight security at 8.50 on Wednesday morning.
Minister of Justice and Human Rights Yasona H. Laoly said in Jakarta on Tuesday that the Indonesian Government was ready to carry out the execution of the two ringleaders of the drug smuggling group called "Bali Nine".
"We have been ready to carry out the execution," he stated after the declaration of the National Natural Resource and Environment Law Reform Program at the vice presidential office.
The minister, however, did not reveal exactly when the execution would be carried out.
Special rooms to accommodate the two convicts at the Nusakambangan Prison and other preparations have been made.
Chan, Sukumarang, and Raheem Agbaje Salami are among the 11 convicts on death row who will be executed soon.
Indonesia recently executed six drug convicts as part of its efforts to combat drug trafficking in the country.
The six convicts were Namaona Denis of Malawi; Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira of Brazil; Daniel Enemuo, alias Diarrassouba Mamadou, of Nigeria; Ang Kiem Soei, alias Kim Ho, alias Ance Tahir, of the Netherlands; Rani Andriani, alias Melisa Aprilia, of Indonesia; and Tran Thi Bich Hanh of Vietnam.
Several foreign countries whose citizens are among those on the execution list, as well as the United Nations, have expressed their protest against the plan.
However, the Indonesian government is adamant that the execution will proceed as planned.
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