Bali Nine Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to be executed together in Bal

[bdomihizayka]

Risk and Reward. If you seek the reward, you must accept the risk. The illegality of drugs creates a motive for the seller, it is mainly a hinderance to the user.

I feel sorry that these people will die, yes. But I understand that we all make choices in life, and that one must accept the responsibility of ones actions. I know that killing these people will not stop the flow of drugs, or make any change in the world. However I have accepted responsibility for my actions, and expect others to do so as well.

THIS

Q.F.T.T.

When I am in Russia and Ukraine- I tend to not fuck around with drugs because I KNOW the consequences are not as lenient as they are in America.

 

[kytnism]

Indonesian heroin smugglers ready to walk free while Chan and Sukumaran face death penalty

In two years' time, a big-time Indonesian heroin smuggler will become eligible for parole in the Australian prison system. If it is granted, he'll be taken to the airport and flown back home to his family.

Kristito Mandagi is one of three Indonesians who, like condemned Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, were caught trying to import heroin to Australia.

Unlike the Australian pair, they were lucky to have been caught by the Australian police, not by those in Bali.

In two years' time, a big-time Indonesian heroin smuggler will become eligible for parole in the Australian prison system. If it is granted, he'll be taken to the airport and flown back home to his family.

Kristito Mandagi is one of three Indonesians who, like condemned Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, were caught trying to import heroin to Australia.

Unlike the Australian pair, they were lucky to have been caught by the Australian police, not by those in Bali.
The freighter involved in the 390-kilogram heroin haul arrives in Sydney Harbour in October 1998.

The freighter involved in the 390-kilogram heroin haul arrives in Sydney Harbour in October 1998. Photo: Rick Stevens

They are particularly lucky because their heroin importation was 47 times bigger than Chan's and Sukumaran's.

Kristito, Saud Siregar and Ismunandar were the captain, the chief officer and the engineer of a boat carrying a staggering 390 kilograms of street-ready drugs and a loaded Glock pistol to a beach near Port Macquarie in NSW.

At the time, the haul, found in 31 designer sports bags, was Australia's largest drug bust.

The drugs, of which the pure heroin component weighed 252.3 kilograms, was worth $400 to $600 million on the street.

Their specially modified boat, the Uniana, with long-range fuel tanks, made the Bali nine's plastic bags, sticky-tape and mules venture at Bali airport look like amateur hour.

But instead of readying themselves to be taken out at dawn and their bodies riddled with bullets – the fate now facing Chan and Sukumaran – the three Indonesians are starting to think about heading home.

They have spent their sentences in Australian prisons in what even they concede is relative comfort.

In an interview in Indonesia's Tempo magazine in 2012, Ismunandar admitted he had little to complain about, citing Lithgow prison's fitness centre and a work scheme in which he could earn $40 a week.

The men were caught in 1998 in an operation that involved 76 Federal, NSW and Customs officers, a PolAir helicopter, two police vessels, the RAN frigate HMAS Bendigo and two Customs ships.

"This was a well-planned, efficiently executed criminal enterprise and ... Mandagi was the pivotal figure," NSW District Court Judge Kenneth Shadbolt said during sentencing in 2000.

"It was a crime of massive proportion ... the nature of the crime and its circumstances makes it one of the gravest of its type."

All three pleaded not guilty, but Mandagi got life with a non-parole period of 25 years.

The other two received 20-year sentences – the same as Schapelle Corby for her boogie board bag of 4.7 kilograms of marijuana.

Eight other Indonesians on the boat were never tried, and were sent home because police could not prove they knew of the drugs. Mandagi appealed and had six years knocked off his sentence.

He will be eligible for parole in October 2017. The other two can apply a year later.

They have had regular visits from Indonesia's consular officials. But in 2012, something so outrageous happened that they felt compelled to complain to anyone who would listen.

It was unfair, they insisted, that Corby had been granted clemency and a five-year sentence cut when the Australian government showed them no mercy at all.

"If only the Indonesian government had urged the Australian government to forgive us instead of cutting Corby's sentence, then I'd be a free man," Ismanandar told a Tempo magazine journalist in a prison interview.

A series of sympathetic stories in the Indonesian press followed, most of which failed to spell out the epic size of the men's haul.

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http://www.smh.com.au/national/indo...maran-face-death-penalty-20150222-13kc3h.html

an excellent article. thanks for sharing pole.

i keep checking this thread, as well as my newsgroups early morning and listen to the radio during my commute to and from work daily in hopes of hearing something definitive regarding this case and the outcome for mr chan and sukumaran. while i appreciate the delay, i dread waking to hear that with all of the new evidence bought to light to yet be considered/investigated as well as prime minister abbotts effort to achieve mutual understanding/peace in offering clemency; mr widodo opts without further investigation to go forward with the execution of the two inmates.

...kytnism...

 

[poledriver]

Bali Nine duo: Indonesian President Joko Widodo tells media to tone it down

INDONESIA’S President Joko Widodo has asked reporters to take the heat out of their reporting of diplomatic tensions over plans to execute the Bali Nine duo.

Asked about Prime Minister Tony Abbott drawing a link between tsunami aid to Indonesia and the death sentences of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on Monday, Mr Joko told a journalist: “There’s already been clarification. Don’t you heat this up.”

Asked if it would affect plans to execute the convicted drug smugglers, Mr Joko said: “No, that’s our sovereign law,” Indonesian news website detik.com reported.

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are likely to be moved from their Bali jail cells this week, with builders under orders to speed up construction of more isolation cells on the execution island.

Bali’s chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso says he’s waiting on the green light from Nusakambangan, the central Java jail island, before transferring the Australians.

That’s “very likely” to happen this week, he says.

“What we want is the sooner the better,” he said. “If they (Nusakambangan) can be fast, we’ll be fast too.”

The transfer of the Bali Nine pair was postponed last week after it was found there wasn’t enough isolation cells for more than five prisoners.

On Monday, building materials began arriving, and a jail official who did not want to be named said they were under orders to work fast and have the renovations completed within days.

Head of corrections at Central Java Law and Human Rights office, Yuspahruddin, said a partition would be built to separate the death row inmates from other prisoners.

“It’s not that there’s no room,” he said.

“The room is available. But because it’s isolation, they must not have any contact with other prisoners.”

The arrival of Sukhoi fighter jets in Bali on Sunday had also fuelled speculation the jail transfer was imminent.

Ngurah Rai Airport air force commander Sugiharto Prapto said the jets were in Bali as part of an unrelated year-long exercise.

They would be in Bali for seven days and, if called on, could provide security for Chan and Sukumaran’s move.

“If they use a charter plane, we’re ready to secure it so that the operation can be implemented safely and smoothly,” he said.

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http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/b...-to-tone-it-down/story-fnh81fz8-1227236253627

 

[poledriver]

Coins for Abbott: Indonesians rally to repay tsunami aid, call Australian PM ‘Shylock’

Indonesians have mobilized in record numbers to collect cash for the Australian PM, who touched a raw nerve by bringing up Australia’s $1 bn in tsunami relief aid to Jakarta while making a clemency appeal for convicted drug traffickers.

Images of Australian Prime Minister Tonny Abbott with red tape crossed over his mouth can be seen all over Indonesia, particularly in Jakarata. Loads of silver coins are covering banners spread on the ground – all part of the “repay” protest campaign that has spread like a bushfire across the island nation.

As part of the international relief effort for the 2004 earthquake and tsunami off the west coast of Sumatra that killed more than 100,000 people, Australia was quick to offer $1 billion in aid relief.

Speaking this week, Abbott hinted that it is time for the Asian nation to repay its debt by freeing two members of the famous Bali Nine, currently on a death row. The Bali Nine was a name given to a group of nine Australians who were arrested in Bali in 2005 Bali for planning to smuggle 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin, valued at over $3 million, from Indonesia to Australia.

“Let's not forget that a few years ago when Indonesia was struck by the Indian Ocean tsunami, Australia sent a billion dollars worth of assistance,” Abbot said. “I would say to the Indonesian people and the Indonesian government: we in Australia are always there to help you and we hope that you might reciprocate in this way at this time,” the PM stated, referring to death-row Australian nationals Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

The plea sparked a fierce backlash, with Indonesians comparing Tony Abbott to Shakespeare’s Shylock, the moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who demanded a pound of flesh if his loans weren’t paid back.

In order to rebuff the Australian PM, the nation of 250 million is now collecting pocket change to repay the “loan” Australia had once provided.

"Australians need a prime minister, not a Shylock and drug dealer's cousin," read a banner during Sunday’s protest. A Twitter campaign using the hashtags #KoinuntukAustralia, #coinforAustralia and #coinforAbbott has also generated a lot of steam.

While on the diplomatic front, the country’s leadership seemed satisfied by the explanation offered by the Australians on Friday, many ordinary Indonesians remain enraged. During a protest on Sunday, thousands rallied to express their anger and continue to coin collection campaign.

The Pro-Indonesia Coalition, for example, organized a “Coin for Australia” movement during a car-free day at a roundabout near Hotel Indonesia.

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http://rt.com/news/234607-indonesia-aid-coins-abbott/

 

[poledriver]

Why executions won't win Indonesia's drug war

Sydney, Australia (CNN)Indonesia has announced that death row inmates and ringleaders of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, will be transferred from Kerokoban prison. It's the first step in their last walk to the firing squad.

The two -- who were convicted of a failed attempt to smuggle heroin to Australia in 2005 -- are now more than likely to be taken out to a field on Nusakambangan, a prison island off central Java, and shot dead.

Besides the horror of the death penalty -- something Australia only dispensed of in 1967 -- there is so much unnecessary tragedy in this case.

Some of it rests on the shoulders of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), who tipped off the Indonesian police after receiving information from a worried father of one of the duo's mules.

Some rests on the own shoulders of the men, who made one terrible, foolish mistake while young.

However, a lot of it also rests with Indonesia and its President Joko Widodo, whose cruel lack of compromise and desire to clear out the prisons has seen him categorically turn down any chance of clemency -- even though this potentially flouts Indonesian law.

'No clemency'

Widodo has said he will deny clemency for all drug offenders. Indonesian legal teams are now scrambling a submission to the administrative court, arguing that the president can't deny clemency for all drug cases, but must consider each case individually.

Widodo is also following the lead of the Indonesian public, which in the main believes in the death penalty. Of course, this is in stark contrast to the work Indonesia does to get its own citizens off death row around the world.

The president's hard-line stance isn't just about trying to win some breathing space with an electorate, which in the vast majority is disappointed with his presidency.

He may be also trying to distract them from ongoing corruption scandals, the persistence of cronyism and his inability to break free from the shackles of his political benefactor Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Most significantly though, Widodo has announced a war on drugs, which he sees as devastating the nation.

READ: Legal lifeline thrown to Australians on death row

Drug emergency?

The drug "crisis" is described by Widodo as a "national emergency." According to the president, 4.5 million Indonesians need to be rehabilitated from illicit or illegal drug use, and 40 to 50 young people die from drugs a day. This data has shown to be based on questionable statistics.

Even so, it tempers much of Widodo's thinking on the need for rehabilitation.

And here's where another perspective on rehabilitation comes in. In Chan and Sukumaran, dubbed the pastor and the painter respectively, the president not only has clear examples of rehabilitation, but effective tools for combating the scourge of drug smuggling in his own country and rehabilitating those of his citizens most in need

This is in part due to the characteristics and qualities of the Indonesian prison system.

Rehabilitation

Let's just say that the two were, with the rest of the Bali Nine, allowed to board flights for Australia and nabbed by the Australian Federal Police instead of Indonesia's National Police.

Serving up to 10 years in an Australian prison, would they have been reformed? With a recidivism rate of over 50% and the sterile security conditions that commonly lead to psychological distress and not change, probably not.

That might lead one to assume that something about their time in Kerobokan prison contributed to their reformation, something they would more than likely not have experienced here in Australia.

What can be learned from this hypothesis? Chan and Sukumaran's experiences show genuine clear signs of rehabilitation. So how could this rehabilitation occur in Kerobokan prison, which is claimed to be a "hell hole"?

A model of reform?

By default and not by design, prisons like Kerobokan share many positive aspects that are often overlooked by contemporary prison reformists. As Indonesian corrections don't have the resources to care or provide for inmates, the inmates take it upon themselves to fund and run their own rehabilitation programs.

There is also more buy in from NGOs who also support the inmate programs and the amazing support structures that are created by inmates in prisons in developing countries like Indonesia and the Philippines.

These include their own businesses to support themselves and family, which keep them occupied and sometimes away from criminal pursuits. In the end, in some cases, the prison community becomes a natural environment for rehabilitation.

A study on recidivism in Indonesia may paint a more accurate picture as precise figures are hard to come by. Of course, corruption, criminality and drug running remain very real issues.

Chan and Sukumaran demonstrate a clear sense of remorse and with it the chance of redemption. If rehabilitated returning fighters can be used to help dissuade and can be used to help other young men from making the same mistake, why can't convicted and remorseful drug smugglers do the same?

'No silver bullet solution'

Beyond how unpalatable the notion may be to many, this is yet another reason why it is a real shame the two will be executed -- here are clear examples of successful rehabilitation that should be held high with pride by the Indonesian government, not shot down in history.

Instead, their execution could potentially dampen other inmates' enthusiasm to reform or change in Indonesia. In all prisons, hope is critical for moral and rehabilitation, especially in under-resourced prisons where conditions are harsh.

In this case, as with many more, the death penalty is no silver bullet solution, and in fact hits terribly wide of the mark. There is no conclusive evidence that the death penalty has any real deterrence value.

These two men, who fully admit they made an awful error judgement in while their early 20s, offer a glimpse on how Widodo's war on drugs can be won without having to lose more lives -- without having to fire a single shot.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/13/opinion/australia-indonesia-bali-executions/index.html

 

[poledriver]

Impending Bali executions rely on mistaken ideas about drugs

The impending execution of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has led to an impassioned public debate about capital punishment. But some of the reasons being used to justify the executions just don’t hold up under scrutiny.

Proportionality – the notion that punishment must fit the crime – is a fundamental principle of criminal law. The argument for executing Chan and Sukumaran holds the death penalty is proportionate because they voluntarily participated in the illicit drug trade, which wreaks havoc on the social fabric.

Indonesia’s co-ordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Tedjo Edhy Purdjanto , for instance, has said:

Because of the drug lords, 40 drug addicts die [in Indonesia] every day.
Supporting this view, A Current Affair journalist Caroline Marcus wrote in The Courier Mail:

when weighing up the right to life of convicted drug traffickers against the rights of victims and the wider community’s welfare, it should be a no-brainer where our sympathies must lie.
There are two key assumptions being made here. The first is that Chan and Sukumaran are directly responsible for the harms – including deaths – associated with illicit drug use. The second is that people who use drugs are especially vulnerable to drug traffickers, so society must protect them.

According to this way of thinking, death penalty for drug smuggling deters would-be ringleaders from planning similar drug operations, and protects some of society’s most defenceless citizens. But these assumptions aren’t supported by evidence.

Complex causes

The idea that drug “lords” are directly responsible for drug deaths suggests there’s a direct, causal connection between drug importation and drug deaths. This notion simply cannot be sustained; although harms are sometimes associated with drug use, drug-related harms are complex phenomena, shaped by many things.

Drug overdoses are the result of a constellation of factors, including laws that prohibit drug use, insufficient treatment options for people who want to reduce substance use, and the lack of medically-supervised drug consumption facilities, among other things.

All of these can play an important role in preventing fatal drug overdoses, so there’s no guarantee people would have died had the drug smuggling operation been successful.

At any rate, the link between Chan and Sukumaran and the deaths of people who use drugs are hypothetical because the drugs never reached their intended destination. The execution of the men cannot be a proportionate response because it relies on flawed logic about the cause of harms that never eventuated.

Drug users are victims

The second key assumption is that Chan and Sukumaran preyed on vulnerable consumers, variously described as “victims” and drug “addicts” in comments made in the media.

This idea belies a key stereotype about drug markets: that they are structured in certain ways, with a fixed hierarchy of roles. According to this logic, those in the upper echelons of the system (drug manufacturers, for instance, and traffickers) have more power than those lower down in the chain (drug mules and consumers). These claims are also unsustainable.

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http://theconversation.com/impending-bali-executions-rely-on-mistaken-ideas-about-drugs-37694

 

[poledriver]

ABC News 24

18 mins ·

‪#‎BREAKING -‬ Convicted Australian Bail Nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's application to challenge the Indonesian president's refusal to give them clemency has been dismissed.
Justice Hendro Puspito has turned down the pair's application saying clemency is a gift from the President and it's unrelated to the judge's decision.

 

[SixBuckets]

That coin collecting for 'Shylock' thing is intense.

 

[poledriver]

Bali Nine duo: Families beg for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran’s lives on Indonesian TV

THE anguished families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have begged Indonesian President Joko Widodo not to kill the two young men.

In an interview with Indonesia’s MetroTV station, aired last night, the Chans and Sukumarans told of their emotional distress in a bid to take their message of rehabilitation to Jakarta and the president.

“I don’t want them to execute my son. He has done a lot of good things, he is a good person, he is a changed person and I am begging the president not to execute him, to give him another chance, for him to stay in the prison and continue to do all the good things he is doing,” Sukumaran’s mother, Raji Sukumaran, said in the message she hopes the president will hear.

Michael Chan, Andrew Chan’s brother, told of his family’s embarrassment at the shame the Bali Nine duo’s crime has brought Indonesia.

“As a family we feel embarrassed because this has happened … we know it has caused a lot of shame for Indonesia and we apologise,” Mr Chan said.

“(In) 10 years he has done a lot of good things for Indonesia inside the prison system.”

It was the family’s first Indonesian television interview and comes as authorities say the two men will be among 10 drug traffickers shot dead at Nusa Kambangan soon.

No date has been set but authorities say preparations at the island are 90 per cent complete. New isolation cells to house the 10 who will be shot.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/b...on-indonesian-tv/story-fnh81fz8-1227239294439

 

[poledriver]

Indonesian activists hold protest against Tony Abbott: ‘Go to hell with your druggies’

AS AUSTRALIA’S relationship with Indonesia teeters on the brink, activists in Jakarta have sent a clear message to Prime Minister Tony Abbott: “Go to hell with your druggies”.

Continuing anger over remarks made by Mr Abbott in a plea to spare Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran echoed through the streets of Jakarta on Wednesday, when hundreds of Indonesian activists staged a protest outside the Australian Embassy.

The protest came in defiance of Mr Abbott’s reminder last week of the billions of dollars in aid spent to help the country post-Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.

“Let’s not forget that a few years ago when Indonesia was struck by the Indian Ocean tsunami, Australia sent a billion dollars worth of assistance,” Mr Abbott said.

“We sent a significant contingent of our armed forces to help in Indonesia with humanitarian relief and Australians lost their lives in that campaign to help Indonesia.

“We will be making our displeasure known, we will be letting Indonesia know in absolutely unambiguous terms that we will feel grievously let down.”

Now the tables have turned, and Indonesia is making its displeasure known, tying a fake Tony Abbott figurine to a mock jail cell with signs reading, “We are freedom country, go to hell Abbott and druggies”.

“Abbott love druggies, we hate druggies,” another read.

“Mr Abbott, take care with your mouth. Don’t ruin Indonesia-Australia friendship.”

Yet that night, Mr Abbott confirmed he had a “positive” conversation with Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo.

“Suffice to say that the President absolutely understands our position and I think he is carefully considering Indonesia’s position,” Mr Abbott said.

“I don’t want to raise hope that might turn out to be dashed. It was a positive sign that the conversation took place.

“The fact that the President of Indonesia and the Prime Minister of Australia can talk candidly about these issues is a sign of the strength of the relationship.”

Meanwhile, eight army tanks are reportedly on standby in Denpasar to remove Chan and Sukumaran from Kerobokan Prison and deliver them to the airport for transfer to the prison island of Nusakambangan, where the men will face a firing squad, reports News Corp’s Paul Toohey.

The date and time of the execution is “riddled with uncertainty”, he writes.

“What we want is the sooner the better,” Bali’s chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso said.

“If they (Nusakambangan) can be fast, we’ll be fast too.”

http://www.news.com.au/national/cou...th-your-druggies/story-fns0kb3z-1227240803053

 

[cj]

Well this whole situation has kind of blown up in everyone's face hasn't it?

 

[poledriver]

Former inmate and avid artist Dayu Alit credits Bali Nine’s Myuran Sukumaran with her recovery

DAYU Alit was just 16 and taking drugs when she was sentenced to four years and three months jail in Bali’s Kerobokan prison.
Caught with just 0.14 grams of methamphetamine, the school student faced a bleak future inside an adult prison with a crushing sentence.
A young Australian man on death row changed her life. Now 20 and free, Dayu, wants that same man to have a second chance at his own life.

Released on parole after three years in jail Dayu — whose was born Ida Ayu Komang Alit Kencana Dewi — has gone back to school to finish her senior high school and has become an artist.
She is one of a group of six former prisoners who have gone on, after release, to paint and who now plan to open an art gallery which they want to call the Bali Nine Gallery.

They have earmarked a place in Legian and are hoping to secure a rental deal this week.
The former prisoners are testament to the success of rehabilitation programs set up inside Kerobokan jail by Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, who are facing imminent execution.

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http://www.news.com.au/national/for...ith-her-recovery/story-fncynjr2-1227243726120

 

[poledriver]

Bali Nine: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran 'to be transferred within 48 hours' in preparation for execution

Bali's chief prosecutor says he plans to transfer two Australian drug smugglers out of their Bali prison in the next 48 hours in preparation for their executions.

Momock Bambang Samiarso is charged with the responsibility of transferring Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to an island prison off Java to face a firing squad.

So far all plans Indonesian officials have announced for the executions have been delayed.

The two Bali Nine members were due to be taken away to the island last month before the move was postponed.

Mr Momock now says he has an order to transfer them this week, and plans to do so tonight or tomorrow night.

The elite police unit BRIMOB, which will handle security, and the prison managers are on standby for when the order comes through.

Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran are still attempting a legal appeal, but the government was effectively ignoring that, saying nothing could stop the executions.

President Joko Widodo has again lashed out at foreign intervention over the death penalty in Indonesia.

Mr Widodo warned a room full of high school students about the dangers of drugs and reiterated his commitment to show no mercy to drug offenders.

"About drugs, please be careful. Now there are more or less 50 people from our generation who die because of drugs, 50 per day," he said.

Those figures are disputed, but the president has been using them to justify his tough line on drugs and he rallied students for support.

"Do you agree drug dealers should be punished to death?" he asked the students.

"Agree!" they replied.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-...sferred-within-48-hours-for-execution/6276542

 

[poledriver]

Bali Nine duo’s final days: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to be moved to execution island

HUNDREDS of police have now sealed off Kerobokan prison and surroundings and a police water cannon is on standby for the high security transfer of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to the island where they will die.

Bali’s chief prosecutor, Momock Bambang Samiarso has just arrived at the jail to supervise the transfer, and the vehicles that will transfer the men have backed into the jail interior.

Military personnel and Pansers (armoured military vehicles) have turned up and all roads around the jail have been closed in preparation for the transfer.

Riot squad police have arrived, wearing full riot gear and shields, and lined up in front of the jail.

Police have lined up from the jail gate to the road where armoured cars will drive in to collect the two Australians.

Outside the jail gate, candles left by locals and former inmates, whose lives were touched by Chan and Sukumaran, are burning.

Overnight, the former inmates and friends of the condemned duo came in a steady stream to the jail to light candles and pray for the two men who may have only days to live.

Chan and Sukumaran will be driven to Bali Airport and flown to Cilacap, the town closest to Nusa Kambangan Island, where they will be placed in isolation cells.

It is understood the pair’s plane will leave Bali for their final journey at 7am, local time (10AEDT).

It is unclear when they will be executed, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said this morning.

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http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/b...execution-island/story-fnh81fz8-1227246969406

 

[kytnism]

Police arrive at Kerobokan ahead of Bali Nine Inmate Transfer.

More than 100 police officers have arrived outside Kerobokan jail ahead of the transfer of Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to their place of execution.

Indonesian authorities confirmed yesterday the Bali Nine pair would be taken to Nusakambangan this afternoon, however it is understood it could be as early as this morning as an armoured military vehicle has already arrived at the prison.

The pair have started handing away their few belongings to fellow inmates as they prepare for their final journey.

Earlier, prison governor Sudjonggo said he had supper with Chan and Sukumaran.

They asked him what they were allowed to pack for Nusakambangan.

Sukumaran, who has become an accomplished artist during his nine years in jail, would take pencils and a drawing book.

Chan, who has been ordained as a Christian minister, would take only clothes, Sudjonggo said.

Both will take bibles.

Early this morning police began putting up police tape at Kerobokan prison, where the pair have been inmates for ten years, in preparation for the transfer.



The prison governor told 9NEWS the pair dealt with the news of the transfer well and remained calm.

It is understood armoured police carriers will transport the pair to Denpasar Airport. From there they will fly on a military jet to Cilicap in central Java, the port town aross the water from Nusakambangan.

There are two helicopters on standby to take them to the execution island.

The date of the executions has still not been confirmed. It is understood the pair must be given 72 hours notice of their execution under Indonesian law.


Video aired on 9NEWS last night showed construction work was still continuing on a mortuary at the island of Nusakambangan.

Indonesia plans to execute eight other prisoners at the facility, including a Brazilian man with a mental disorder, alongside Chan and Sukumaran.

Should the death sentences be carried out simultaneously, it will be the largest mass execution in Indonesia for at least 20 years.

Last night, Chan and Sukumaran's lawyer Julian McMahon said it would be "unthinkable" for the pair to be executed while their appeal for clemency was still being played out in the courts.

He said he found it hard to believe his clients would be moved to Indonesia's "execution island" this week despite chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso's repeated declarations their deaths by firing squad were imminent.

The Australian government has continually pushed for clemency on behalf of the drug smugglers, along with Indonesian officials including a former governor of Kerobokan prison where Chan and Sukumaran have served their time on death row.

Both have been touted as sterling examples of rehabilitation, with Chan recently being ordained as a minister.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told TODAY she was "utterly dismayed" at news of today's transfer and had last night spoken to her Indonesian counterpart at length.

"It would be totally unacceptable indeed unthinkable for planning for executions to take place while these legal avenues are still open.

"I asked that President Joko Widodo show mercy and forgiveness just as Indonesia asks other countries to show mercy and forgiveness for Indonesian citizens who find themselves on death row overseas."

Ms Bishop said she had asked for the Australian government to be informed about the prison transfer and the date of the executions but that had not occurred.

"I can not think of any more that we can do but continue to make representations to the decision-makers and to the president," she lamented.

"I would argue that mercy and forgiveness has as big a place in Indonesian legal concepts as it does in Australia.

"They have achieved in Mr Sukumaran and Mr Chan what other jail systems around the world long to aspire to and that is the rehabilitation of those who have engaged in serious drug offences.

"I'm sure that Indonesia understands that this will have consequences."

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/03/03/18/30/bali-nine-pair-to-move-to-execution-island-tomorrow

...kytnism...

 

[harmacologist]

finally.

will there be a live stream?

 

[kytnism]

yes. its happening now.

http://www.9news.com.au/

...kytnism...

 

[Soulgasm]

It's funny, in the face of rising HIV epidemics, Indonesian officials will do anything to keep from admitting what the true cause is (increased sexual liberation and inadequate access to sexual education and protection) in their strict Islamic culture. They often use drugs as a scapegoat for this (especially drugs often used intravenously like heroin and methamphetamine) to justify these strict punishments. Indonesia is rife with every kind of drug you could imagine, especially Bali and Jakarta. They often gun for westerners because they know they can extract huge bribes from them in the face of death and ignore every poor Indonesian national slinging dope on the streets. It's actually fairly hard to get caught in this country as long as you give authorities no reason to come after you. The fact that this poor chap's dad actually alerted the authorities here is FUCKED. It's all about the money here; pure greed. And it's really sad. I'd bet my left nut that the president (in NSA's pic) has thrown his fair share of shabu-shabu (methamphetamine) parties and has no moral agenda against the drugs. The grim reality is that they have found a leverage to take huge amounts of money from westerners and the execution of a few people is just their way of keeping up the veneer of this "war on drugs" and keep collecting bribes.

 

[poledriver]

It was Scott Rush's dad who told on them I believe, not one of these two guys dads, but good post.

Shit situation and killing two guys (or 5 or 10 or 50) isn't going to do jack shit about their drugs problem or the huge amounts of corruption going on.

 

[mister]

This isnt punishment, it's revenge murder that serves no purpose than to satisfy certain un-evolved "people's" blood lust and bitter twisted morality.