JAKARTA: -- High-ranking government officials said on Wednesday
that no executions of drug convicts would take place in the next few
months, as the country’s judiciary was still processing their appeals
and case reviews.
Attorney-General M. Prasetyo said that although all preparations for the
drug convicts’ executions had been completed, prosecutors were still
waiting for the final verdicts on their appeals.
Prasetyo went on to say that all death-row convicts in the second batch
had to be executed simultaneously, including Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of
the Philippines and French inmate Serge Atlaoui, whose case reviews are
now being handled by the Supreme Court.
“If they were not executed simultaneously, it would create further
problems for us,” Prasetyo said at the State Palace on Wednesday before a
Cabinet meeting presided over by president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
Prasetyo claimed the AGO had no deadline for the executions, adding that
it was waiting for the ongoing legal proceedings to wrap up.
“There are several ongoing legal proceedings. We must wait for them [to
reach their conclusion],” he said, adding that the appeals and case
reviews included those filed at the Jakarta State Administrative Court
(PTUN) by two Australian drug smugglers on death row, Andrew Chan, 31,
and Myuran Sukumaran, 33.
Prasetyo maintained that the executions’ delay was not due to foreign pressure.
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