An ambulance transports the body of executed Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei from Nusakambangan prison in Cilacap, on January 18, 2015, as Indonesia carried out its first executions under new President Joko Widodo PHOTO: Dida Nuswantara/AFP
Preparations continue to move forward for the next round of executions in Indonesia, with the country’s attorney general HM Prasetyo declaring today that arrangements are 90 percent ready.
In line with that, 10 coffins reportedly arrived in Cilacap, Central Java, waiting to hold the bodies of death row prisoners that will be executed in Nusakambangan prison island.
Reports last week stated that Cilacap mortician B. Suhendroputro had already received three coffins via delivery.
Now, News Corp Australia is reporting that another seven coffins have arrived since then and one is extra large, made to hold a “big foreigner.”
Prasetyo reportedly said that 10 people would face the firing squad in the imminent execution group, so the arrival of these coffins do indicate that the government means business.
Though he hasn’t given a fixed execution date, Prasetyo and his colleagues in the administration have been adamant that they will not cave to international pressure to call off executions, particularly for the Bali Nine Australian pair.
The mortician, Suhendroputro is supposed to conduct the mortuary rites and burials for the inmates to be executed, just as he did after the January 18 executions earlier this year. He will wait in a makeshift mortuary tent near the firing range to tend to the bodies, says News Corp.
He told the news network that the last time around when he received the bodies, the bullet entry wounds were already stitched shut by a government medical officer where they faced the firing squad.
