Andrew Chan of the Bali Nine, the Australian man on death row for a Bali drug trafficking plot, still has no idea if or when he will be executed.
His fellow ringleader of the Bali Nine, Myuran Sukumaran, already got a formal rejection for his clemency bid from Indonesian President Joko Widodo, but Chan has yet to receive such formal rejection. However, Indonesia’s attorney general has said Chan is on the list of drug offenders to be executed this year, and that Sukumaran must wait for Chan so the pair can be executed together.
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According to AAP reports, Kerobokan Prison governor Sujonggo says there’s no word and Chan has not received any news about his own clemency bid.
With Indonesia’s six executions of drug offenders over the weekend and a resulting recall of ambassadors by the Netherlands and Brazil, it looks like Jokowi may be willing to compromise diplomatic relations with other countries to send his firm, hardliner message about no tolerance for drugs. As for the impending Australian Bali Nine pair’s executions, the country’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been saying she and PM Tony Abbott are doing what they can to push for clemency.
We don’t know if this includes the Bali Nine pair, but a police chief in Central Java where five of this weekend’s executions took place was quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying the next round of executions will be in February. Ulung Sampurna, the police chief, also says he’s not yet standing down officers deployed there.
Photo from Friends of Andrew Chan Facebook page
