Even though the Bali Nine pair on Indonesian death row got their transfer to prison island Nusakambangan postponed last week, Indonesian authorities reportedly said today that the transfer is “very likely” to happen this week.
Bali’s chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso, the man in charge of the transfer, said his team is ready to move Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran “at any time,” reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
Samiarso reportedly made similar comments last week, before the transfer was postponed, so he may not be the main man we want to listen to.
There seems to be a miscommunication on why the pair gets to stay awhile longer in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison. According to Fairfax Media, Indonesian Attorney General HM Prasetyo cited giving prison authorities on Nusakambangan more time to prepare, while head of corrections in central Java Ahmad Yuspahruddin said the hold up was in Jakarta.
Yuspahruddin says he only needs “two to three days” to get the cells set up, but first needs to know how many people will be executed before everything is prepared. However, he says he’s waiting on this information from Prasetyo and officials.
Apparently the execution needs to be pretty immediate after the transfer, or else there might be “unrest” among other prisoners, according Yuspahruddin. You don’t say?
“It will cause problem to the other prisoners on death row here. We have over 50 of them. It will stress them out, the longer they stay here before the execution. What if they developed a sense of solidarity? What if they bond with the rest of the prisoners? We need to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he said, as quoted by the SMH.
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