REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is coordinating with the National Police to prepare a firing squad and carry out the necessary technical preparations ahead of the executions, Attorney General HM Prasetyo stated.
"We have to prepare the team. Each team comprises 13 personnel. We will coordinate with the relevant parties," HM Prasetyo noted here on Wednesday.
He will wait for the final report and the new schedule to carry out the executions.
"We are still waiting for the final report. Is a firing squad ready? Have they been given spiritual guidance?" he questioned.
Prasetyo also revealed that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have finally been moved from Kerobokan, Bali, to Nusakambangan island prison, Cilacap, Central Java, on Wednesday morning.
"They have been transferred to Nusakambangan island prison, Cilacap, Central Java," he stated.
He pointed out that the police will provide a special escort for the two Australians convicts.
Their family members will be able to see Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran before the start of the isolation period.
Prasetyo revealed that the isolation period will start within hours before the executions.
The attorney general plans to execute 11 criminals comprising eight involved in drug offenses and three in murders.
Earlier, President Joko Widodo stated that no clemency will be granted to drug traffickers on death row.
"It (capital punishment) is still our positive law, and it is not the president who decides the death penalty, but it is the court's verdict. The president is only requested to grant clemency, but there is no clemency for drug traffickers," the president remarked here, Monday.
He affirmed that no country should interfere in Indonesia's legal sovereignty.
Executions of drug-related criminals on death row are part of the legal sovereignty of Indonesia, he noted.
Moreover, Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo remarked that various foreign pressures, including the United Nations, will not affect the execution of the death penalty.
"Foreign pressures (UN Secretary General, Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott, and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff) will not affect the execution of the death sentences," Tjahjo noted.
Tjahjo emphasized that the executions must be carried out. Indonesia is in a state of emergency with regard to drug abuse.
"Nearly 46 Indonesians die every day due to drug consumption," he stated.
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