Firing squads ‘ready’ for executions — Indonesia police

Indonesian police officers with their dogs stand guard at Wijayapura port in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, April 27, 2015, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. AP

Cilacap Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ulung Sampurna Jaya says that the police have prepared the firing squads for the executions of nine death row inmates that are expected to be conducted either on Tuesday evening or early Wednesday, in line with existing rules.

He said the convicts would be shot simultaneously by each of their own firing squads.

Ulung said the firing squads were ready and could be dispatched straightaway to the execution site once the execution orders were issued.

“The National Police are ready. Any time the Attorney General’s Office [AGO] orders us to move, we are ready to move,” he said in Cilacap, on the sidelines of security checks jointly conducted by the Central Java Police and the Jakarta Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday.

Jakarta Prosecutors’ Office head M. Adi Toegarisman said based on the security checks he conducted together with Central Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Noer Ali on Nusakambangan, all preparations for the executions were complete.

He refused to make comment on the exact time of the executions. “On the exact execution time, we cannot yet announce it,” said Adi.

As stated earlier, the executions of the nine death row inmates are expected to be held either on Tuesday evening or early Wednesday.

The nine facing death are two Australians named Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, Raheem Agbaje Salami, Okwudili Oyatanze, and Silvester Obiekwe Nwaolise alias Mustofa from Nigeria, Zainal Abidin of Indonesia, Rodrigo Gularte from Brazil, Martin Anderson alias Belo from Ghana and Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso from the Philippines.