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Bali Nine: Aussies not in next executions

A spokesman for the Indonesian attorney-general has denied that two Australian drug smugglers have been listed in the next round of executions.

There have been reports that Muhammad Prasetyo appeared before a parliamentary committee and said Australians were among the next group of death row inmates to be executed.

The only Australians on death row in Indonesia are Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

“We are still finding the right time for the next executions of citizens of France, Ghana, Cordova, Brazil, The Philippines, Australia and one Indonesian,” Mr Prasetyo is quoted as saying by an Indonesian website.

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But the attorney-general’s spokesman, Tony Spontana, said Mr Prasetyo only discussed the possible location for the next round of executions.

It is understood the Bali Nine pair have not yet been listed for execution, despite the reports.

The head of the parliamentary committee, Azis Syamsuddin, also said the attorney-general made no mention of the nationalities of the next group of people to be executed.

The reports say Mr Praseto hasn’t revealed the names of the next prisoners, however Chan and Sukumaran are the only Australians on death row in Indonesia, and he has said previously they will be dealt with together.

Indonesia resumed executing drug smugglers earlier this month, and Chan and Sukumaran have been denied presidential pardons.

Earlier on Wednesday, Indonesia president Joko Widodo said he would not be pressured into granting clemency to the two men.

The men have exhausted all legal avenues for appeal and a judicial review at the Supreme Court level failed to overturn their sentences.

Indonesia experts had suggested Widodo may overturn their sentences in the name of diplomacy.

The two Australians have been in jail in Indonesia since 2005 after they were arrested, with seven others, while trying to smuggle heroin out of Bali.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made a public appeal for the men’s lives.

He said the men “deserve mercy” and were “reformed characters”.

Earlier this year, six people were executed after being denied clemency a month earlier and given three days’ notice of their deaths.

ABC

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