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NO CERTAINTY YET ABOUT DATE, PLACE OF BALI I BOMBERS' EXECUTION
Jakarta, Aug 23 (ANTARA) - Bali's Higher Public Prosecutor's Office is still unable to mention the definitve date and place for the execution of Bali I bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra but continues to coordinate with the provincial police about the matter.
"We cannot yet mention the date because we are still waiting for further instructions from the Attorney General's Office (AGO)" in Jakarta, the head of Bali's Higher Public Prosecutors's Office, IDP Alit Adhyana, said on Saturday, according to a report from Denpasar.
But although the exact date for the exection had yet to be set, his office as the agency that would be responsible for the implementation of the Bali bombers' death sentence was continuing to coordinate with the Bali police on the preparations, he said.
"Anyhow, we, as the agency bearing responsibility for the execution, must already be in a stand-by position to carry it out any time," Adhyana said.
The coordination with the police was necessary because the needed firing squad would have to be provided by the police. "We have also coordinated with the police about the assignment of a firing squad so that the squad will be available on call," he said.
Attorney General Hendarman Supandji was recently reported to have said Amrozi et al's excecution was to be carried out before the start of Ramadhan, the Moslem fasting month, in September.
Meanwhile, a report from Cilacap, Central Java, quoted the director general of state prisons at the law and human rights ministry, Untung Sugiyono, as saying Amrozi et al's execution would be preceded by a coordinative meeting among the government agencies to be involved in the action.
The meeting would discuss the date and place of the execution, and how it would be carried out, Sugiyono said without mentioning when the meeting would take place.
The three Bali bombers are currently being held in Batu state penitentiary on Nusakambangan Island, off the Cilacap coast.
Death-row convicts whose executions are imminent in a matter of days are usually given an opportunity to meet their closest relatives for the last time. But an official at the Central Java law and human rights office was reported as saying on Saturday his office had until now yet to issue a permit for Amrrozi et al's relatives to visit them in prison.
So far, the office had permitted the trio to be visited only by their lawyers last Wednesday (Aug 20), according to Bambang Winahyu, head of the prison affairs division of the Central Java law and human rights office, in Semarang when contacted by phone from Cilacap.
Winahyu also said he was unaware about a reported plan of the Bali Higher Public Prosecutor's Office to send a team to the Batu jail on Nusakambangan Island where Amrozi et al are incarcerated.
"I have not received that information but I am surprised to hear that Amrozi et al are to be executed soon. The problem is the Ramadhan fasting month is to begin only a few days from today," he said.
"We cannot yet mention the date because we are still waiting for further instructions from the Attorney General's Office (AGO)" in Jakarta, the head of Bali's Higher Public Prosecutors's Office, IDP Alit Adhyana, said on Saturday, according to a report from Denpasar.
But although the exact date for the exection had yet to be set, his office as the agency that would be responsible for the implementation of the Bali bombers' death sentence was continuing to coordinate with the Bali police on the preparations, he said.
"Anyhow, we, as the agency bearing responsibility for the execution, must already be in a stand-by position to carry it out any time," Adhyana said.
The coordination with the police was necessary because the needed firing squad would have to be provided by the police. "We have also coordinated with the police about the assignment of a firing squad so that the squad will be available on call," he said.
Attorney General Hendarman Supandji was recently reported to have said Amrozi et al's excecution was to be carried out before the start of Ramadhan, the Moslem fasting month, in September.
Meanwhile, a report from Cilacap, Central Java, quoted the director general of state prisons at the law and human rights ministry, Untung Sugiyono, as saying Amrozi et al's execution would be preceded by a coordinative meeting among the government agencies to be involved in the action.
The meeting would discuss the date and place of the execution, and how it would be carried out, Sugiyono said without mentioning when the meeting would take place.
The three Bali bombers are currently being held in Batu state penitentiary on Nusakambangan Island, off the Cilacap coast.
Death-row convicts whose executions are imminent in a matter of days are usually given an opportunity to meet their closest relatives for the last time. But an official at the Central Java law and human rights office was reported as saying on Saturday his office had until now yet to issue a permit for Amrrozi et al's relatives to visit them in prison.
So far, the office had permitted the trio to be visited only by their lawyers last Wednesday (Aug 20), according to Bambang Winahyu, head of the prison affairs division of the Central Java law and human rights office, in Semarang when contacted by phone from Cilacap.
Winahyu also said he was unaware about a reported plan of the Bali Higher Public Prosecutor's Office to send a team to the Batu jail on Nusakambangan Island where Amrozi et al are incarcerated.
"I have not received that information but I am surprised to hear that Amrozi et al are to be executed soon. The problem is the Ramadhan fasting month is to begin only a few days from today," he said.
