Bali Nine Aussies face execution next

Indonesia plans to execute the Bali Nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan together.

Australian death-row prisoners ... Myuran Sukumaran, right and Andrew Chan, left, stand in front of their cell in Bali, Indonesia. Picture: AP Source: AP

BALI Nine Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are among the death row prisoners that Indonesia plans to execute next.

Attorney-General HM Prasetyo says his department is still evaluating the first round of executions held last week.

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Bali Nine mastermind ... Myuran Sukumaran in Kerobokan prison. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: News Corp Australia

He didn't reveal the names of the next prisoners, however Chan and Sukumaran are the only Australians on death row, and he has said previously they will be dealt with together.

"We are still finding the right time for the next executions of citizens of France, Ghana, Cordova, Brazil, The Philippines, Australia and one Indonesian," he told a parliamentary committee.

Mr Prasetyo said the next executions would likely again be held on the Central Java prison island of Nusakambangan, but there had been issues that needed attention.

"There were obstacles," he told the committee.

"The intrusion of human rights activists, the efforts of our electronic media reporters, trying to disguise themselves as fishermen.

"We can prevent them from getting close to the execution location.

Bali Nine ringleader ... Andrew Chan pictured in Kerobokan Jail. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied

"These are all being evaluated." Lawyers for Chan, 31 and Sukumaran, 33, are in Bali preparing to lodge a final court appeal.

The news comes as celebrities and musicians are holding a candlelight vigil for Sukumaran and Chan in Sydney.

Musicians, celebrities and supporters are gathering in Sydney tonight for the Music for Mercy vigil to plea for a stay of execution.

Archibald Prize-winning Australian artist Ben Quilty, who has got to know the men in recent years, says the vigil is being held to send a message.

Australian artist Ben Quilty ... after he visited Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: News Corp Australia

He says Sukumaran, 33, and Chan, 31 have been rehabilitated and are not the same men they once were.

Actor David Wenham expects the vigil to be an uplifting community event.

"While there's still time, there's also a potential sliver of hope," Wenham said on Wednesday.

But Indonesian President Joko Widodo was unequivocal when he spoke to CNN on Tuesday.

Mr Joko said he would make "no compromise" on sending condemned drug dealers to the firing squad.

But Quilty has seen a more personal side of the Australians and has witnessed their transformation.

The artist tutored Sukumaran in Bali's Kerobokan prison, and says he is one of the best students he's ever had.

Reformed painter .. Myuran Sukumaran in the art studio at Kerobokan jail in Bali. Source: News Limited

He now counts him as a friend.

Quilty feels Sukumaran and Chan weren't that different when they were imprisoned to how he once was.

"They made stupid, self-indulgent mistakes, but so did I," Quilty said.

"I put my parents through hell. I was arrested, I abused drugs and alcohol," he said.

I Stand for Mercy campaign organiser, Brigid Delaney, said the online petition appealing to Mr Joko for clemency had gathered almost 100,000 signatures.

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More than 20 Australian celebrities, including Alan Jones, Germaine Greer and Bryan Brown, have also appeared in a video calling for mercy.

However, not all celebrities are on board with the campaign. TV and radio personality, Derryn Hinch, said the celebrities involved are hypocritical for only opposing the death penalty when it's used against Australians.

"If you're against the death penalty be against it for everybody," Hinch said.

The Bali Nine ringleaders, who were jailed for trying to smuggle heroin worth about $4 million into Australia, have been on death row in Kerobokan jail since 2006.

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