INDONESIA and THE EXECUTIONS of DRUG OFFENDERS_ Joko advisers want foreign executions done

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Joko advisers want foreign executions done

Gabrielle Dunlevy, AAP Southeast Asia Correspondent
February 23, 2015, 3:33 am

Advisers to Indonesia's President Joko Widodo say he should get the executions of drug offenders over and done with, as pressure builds from overseas.

Australia has been making strong representations for clemency to Indonesia on behalf of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, sentenced to death in 2006 for the Bali Nine heroin smuggling plot.

Photo: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Source: AAP

But Brazil has taken the strongest stance so far, choosing not to accept the credentials of Indonesia's new ambassador, who has now been recalled to Jakarta.

Brazilian drug smuggler Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira was executed last month, reportedly without receiving his last rites.

Pleas for a Brazilian man set for execution this month, Rodrigo Gularte, have gone unheeded, despite evidence he has a severe mental illness.

An adviser on corruption to Mr Joko, international law lecturer Hikmahanto Juwana, told Indonesia's Metro TV on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff viewed Indonesia as "easily pressured".

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He argued it would be better for Indonesia to push ahead with the executions before any other foreign "manoeuvres".

"If it were me, I'd say just finish the executions," he said.

The transfer of Chan and Sukumaran to the execution site of Nusakambangan island was postponed last week after it was found there weren't enough isolation cells for more than five prisoners.

Professor Hikmahanto said another presidential adviser had already raised a solution.

"Hasyim Muzadi said just do (the executions) every week, not all at the same time," he told Metro TV. "That's no problem."

Photo: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Source: AAP

Tensions between Canberra and Jakarta boiled over last week after Mr Abbott linked Chan and Sukumaran's fate to Australia's donation of $1 billion in aid following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Jakarta perceived the comments as threats and warned, "no one responds well to threats".

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop later called Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla to explain Mr Abbott had not intended to be threatening.

But ordinary Indonesians are also expressing their distaste for Mr Abbott's statement, with a social media-led campaign "coins for Australia" beginning a drive to pay back the aid in loose change.

Indonesia has not announced a new schedule for the Australians' move from Kerobokan prison, or their execution date.

Their lawyers have welcomed the reprieve, as they prepare to challenge the presidential decision to deny them clemency in a Jakarta court on Tuesday.

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