As legal processes over the pending executions of Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan pause authorities’ plans to schedule their deaths, love has flourished.

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Chan, 31, has proposed to his Indonesian partner Febyanti last month and she is wearing his engagement ring, News Corp has reported.

“Andrew is one of the strongest, kindest people I have ever met,” Feby, as she is known, told News Corp.

Andrew Chan. Photo: AAP

“I have never seen him as just a prisoner or someone who is on death row,” she said.

“I love him for who he is. And I see what he does for other people and that makes me love him more.

“If you ask me why do I love him, it’s because he also has weaknesses as well but he also has a lot of good things about him. I accept him the way he is. I am also very proud of him.”

Chan proposed “shortly after” learning his bid for Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s clemency decree was denied, as reported.

His eventual, final punishment for his role in an 8.7kg heroin smuggling attempt from Indonesia to Australia in 2005 has not yet been scheduled.

No date for a wedding appears to have been set, but so far, neither has Chan or Sukumaran’s executions.

The pair are waiting on the prison island of Nusakambangan where their executions are set to occur.

Legal appeals against Widodo’s handling of the clemency bid is being dealt with in the courts, and a hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

“Right now, we have to fulfil their legal rights even though they have already requested clemency,” H. M. Prasetyo, the Indonesian Attorney-General told AAP on Monday in Jogjakarta.

But the ABC has reported that a separate case appealing the denial of presidential clemency for a Nigerian man on death row has been denied.

Jamiu Owolabi Abashin was also to be executed over a smuggling attempt of 5.3kg of heroin through Indonesia in 1998, Fairfax has reported. 

Abashin was appealing as his case has been processed from his arrest to his clemency bid under his alias, Raheem Agbaje Salami.

His appeal was dismissed at the state administrative court as the court said it “didn’t have the authority to test the rights of the president,” the ABC reported.

Mr Prasetyo said he still intended to execute the prisoners simultaneously, as it may create a “psychological burden” if they went to the firing squad separately.

The Bali Nine pair have been told they will have three days warning before their executions are to happen.