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RI HOPES WORLD TO REACT PROPORTIONALLY TO AMROZI ET AL'S EXECUTION
Jakarta, Oct 24 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government hopes the world community will give a proportional reaction to the country's decision to execute Bali bombing death-row convicts Amrozi et al, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
"As we have all seen, the country's legal process in this case has been quite transparent and taken a long time. We hope the world community will give proportional responses to the decision to execute Amrozi et al," Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
Faizasyah said the government had never interfered in the legal proceedings affecting Amrozi and his two associates, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.
"Everything was left to the authority of the judicial bodies. The government never interfered in the case. It never asked the judicial bodies to expedite or slow down the legal processes," he said.
In general, the world community was divided into two groups in regard to the Bali bombers case, he noted. One group wanted their execution expedited and the other was opposed to the death penalty.
Asked about the Australian government's reaction to Amrozi et al's execution, he said Canberra respected Indonesian laws.
The Attorney General's Office said on Friday the three Bali bombing death-row convicts would be executed early next month.
Chief of the Legal Information Center at the Attorney General's Office Jasman Pandjaitan said Amrozi et al's legal battle to challenge the legitimacy of their death sentence was over.
"None of the three convicts has filed a request for clemency, so their execution can be carried out soon," he said.
In Semarang, the Central Java police said on Thursday they had prepared three firing squads for Amrozi et al who are being held in a maximum security prison on Nusakambangan island, off Central Java's southern coast.
"One squad for one convict," Central Java Police Chief Inspector General FX Sunarno said.
Under Law No 2/PnPs/1964, one convict will have one firing squad consisting of 12 men.
Therefore, Sunarno said, there would be 36 police officers for the three convicts, in addition to one commander for each squad.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court (MK) had turned down Amrozi et al`s request to conduct a judicial review on Law No.2/PNPS/1964 on Procedures to Implement the Death Penalty.
Amrozi et al who were sentenced to death for their involvement in the Bali I bombings had filed for a judicial review of the law because they believed execution by a firing squad as mandated by Law No. 2/PNPS/1964 was against their constitutional right not to be tortured.
The court concluded the convicts' arguments were unreasonable and therefore their request for a judicial review of the law was denied.
"As we have all seen, the country's legal process in this case has been quite transparent and taken a long time. We hope the world community will give proportional responses to the decision to execute Amrozi et al," Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
Faizasyah said the government had never interfered in the legal proceedings affecting Amrozi and his two associates, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.
"Everything was left to the authority of the judicial bodies. The government never interfered in the case. It never asked the judicial bodies to expedite or slow down the legal processes," he said.
In general, the world community was divided into two groups in regard to the Bali bombers case, he noted. One group wanted their execution expedited and the other was opposed to the death penalty.
Asked about the Australian government's reaction to Amrozi et al's execution, he said Canberra respected Indonesian laws.
The Attorney General's Office said on Friday the three Bali bombing death-row convicts would be executed early next month.
Chief of the Legal Information Center at the Attorney General's Office Jasman Pandjaitan said Amrozi et al's legal battle to challenge the legitimacy of their death sentence was over.
"None of the three convicts has filed a request for clemency, so their execution can be carried out soon," he said.
In Semarang, the Central Java police said on Thursday they had prepared three firing squads for Amrozi et al who are being held in a maximum security prison on Nusakambangan island, off Central Java's southern coast.
"One squad for one convict," Central Java Police Chief Inspector General FX Sunarno said.
Under Law No 2/PnPs/1964, one convict will have one firing squad consisting of 12 men.
Therefore, Sunarno said, there would be 36 police officers for the three convicts, in addition to one commander for each squad.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court (MK) had turned down Amrozi et al`s request to conduct a judicial review on Law No.2/PNPS/1964 on Procedures to Implement the Death Penalty.
Amrozi et al who were sentenced to death for their involvement in the Bali I bombings had filed for a judicial review of the law because they believed execution by a firing squad as mandated by Law No. 2/PNPS/1964 was against their constitutional right not to be tortured.
The court concluded the convicts' arguments were unreasonable and therefore their request for a judicial review of the law was denied.
