On death row ... Bali Nine members Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Source: News Limited
Indonesia plans to execute the Bali Nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan together.
INDONESIA has put to death five foreigners and one local woman convicted of drugs offences, unleashing a diplomatic storm as Brazil and the Netherlands condemned the execution of their citizens.
The executions — the first under Indonesia's new President Joko Widodo — were carried out by firing squad on foreigners hailing from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Malawi and Nigeria.
Indonesia has tough anti-drugs laws and Widodo, who took office in October, has disappointed rights activists by voicing strong support for capital punishment despite his image as a reformist.
The execution of the six death row inmates was "dreadful news", the federal opposition says as two of the Bali Nine face the same fate.
Call for clemency ... Bali Nine members Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran inside the workshop of Kerobokan jail. Source: News Limited
Labor leader Bill Shorten has repeated his call for clemency for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, Australian citizens who orchestrated a heroin smuggling operation in Indonesia in 2005. "It is dreadful news — I and Labor do not support the death penalty," Mr Shorten told reporters in Melbourne on Sunday.
"It is greatly concerning with the news overnight of the execution of six people, some of whom were foreign citizens.
"We will work with the (Abbott) government to make sure that clemency is extended to Australians who are facing this most dreadful prospect in the coming days and weeks." Indonesia executed six people by firing squad for drug-related crime - including five foreign nationals from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Malawi and Nigeria.
Tough stance ... the executions were the first carried out by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Source: News Corp Australia
"Using the death penalty, which is increasingly rejected by the international community, seriously affects relations between our countries," the spokesman said in a statement.
Meanwhile Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said the Netherlands had temporarily recalled its ambassador to Indonesia over the execution of Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei, and described all six deaths as "terribly sad" in a statement.
"My heart goes out to their families, for whom this is marks a dramatic end to years of uncertainty," Koenders said. "The Netherlands remains opposed to the death penalty." Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Prime Minister Mark Rutte had been in contact with the Indonesian president on the matter, he said, and the government had done "all in its power" to attempt to halt the execution.
Preparations ... Armed police officers and security personnel stand guard as a ferry carrying ambulances prepares to set off for Nusa Kambangan island where the executions of the five of six drug convicts were performed. Source: AP
Five of the executed prisoners were shot dead by five firing squads of 12 paramilitary police at exactly the same time.
In chilling details, the group's last wishes and requests for what happens to their bodies have been detailed.
Families of the condemned were yesterday arriving at the Nusa Kambangan island jail where they were being held in isolation awaiting the time they will be taken from their cells, lined up, an apron with a reflector over their heart placed on them before they are shot dead at the same time by the firing squads.
They had been allowed to meet with their families and with their religious advisers, who were allowed to stay with them right up to the execution and witness it.
Dutch citizen Ang Kiem Soei asked that his body be cremated and handed over to his Dutch wife. The Vietnamese woman, Tran Thi, asked that her body be cremated and the ashes kept at the women's prison in Semarang where she has been held.
The other woman, Rani Indriani, asked to be buried beside her mother's grave in Cianjur.
Island of the damned ... Nusa Kambangan island, upon which Indonesia's maximum security prison is located. Source: AFP
Brazilian Archer Cardoso Moreira was arrested in 2003, after police at Jakarta airport found 13.4 kilograms (29.5 pounds) of cocaine hidden in his hang glider. A second Brazilian national, Rodrigo Muxfeldt Gularte, remains on death row in Indonesia, also convicted of drug trafficking.
Ang was arrested near Jakarta in 2003, after police found equipment which they estimated had been producing 15,000 ecstasy pills a day for three years. Police confiscated 8,000 pills and thousands of dollars.
The others who were executed were Namaona Denis, 48, from Malawi; Daniel Enemuo, 38, from Nigeria, and Indonesian Rani Andriani.
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It is done ... An ambulance transports the body of executed Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei from Nusa Kambangan prison in Cilacap today. Source: AFP
International outrage
Brazil's president was "distressed and outraged" after Indonesia defied her repeated pleas and executed one of her countrymen convicted of drug trafficking, a spokesman said Saturday.
"President Dilma Rousseff took note -- distressed and outraged -- at the execution of Brazilian Marco Archer in Indonesia today," a statement from the spokesman said of the execution, the first of a Brazilian overseas.
"President Dilma regrets deeply that this final request, made after several earlier ones, was not heeded by the Indonesian head of state," the Brazilian statement added.
Another last-minute apeal by the Dudge foreign minister also failed to change or delay the execution.
Amnesty International said the first executions under the new president, who took office in November, were "a retrograde step" for human rights.
Sukumaran's final bid
Meanwhile Myuran Sukumaran's Indonesian lawyer plans to lodge an application next week for a second judicial review of his case in a bid to have him spared the firing squad.
And yesterday renowned Australian artist Ben Quilty visited Sukumaran in Kerobokan jail as the last hours of the six other condemned drug traffickers ticked down before their executions today.
Mr Quilty is Sukumaran's friend and mentor and has taught him painting and conducted art classes in jail and is devastated by the latest news that the 33-year-old's clemency plea has been rejected by the Indonesian President.
High profile visitor ... Archibald winning artists Ben Quilty visits Kerobokan Jail to teach a painting class organised by Myuran Sukumaran. Source: News Corp Australia
His Indonesian lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis told News Corp Australia that he visited Sukumaran and fellow Bali Nine death row inmate Andrew Chan in Kerobokan jail in the past few days and now plans to lodge a case review next week.
Known in Indonesia as a PK, a judicial review is essentially an extraordinary appeal and generally requires new evidence to be heard. Sukumaran and Chan have both already lost their judicial review of their case.
Former president ... Sukamaran's portrait of Susilo Bambang Yudoyhono. Source: Supplied
Self portrait ... Myuran Sukamaran has been taught by Ben Quilty. Source: Supplied
And there is now uncertainty about whether or not a second judicial review is even allowed. A Government committee recently said only one PK was allowed but has yet to make a new regulation to that effect. Indonesia's two highest courts disagree on the issue.
Mr Lubis said he plans to lodge the PK application in the Denpasar District Court next week.
He said he would be submitting that there were errors of the application of law in the previous case review made by the Supreme Court.
"Thus I want to use the second PK as an attempt to fix it because in my opinion if we can fix that mistake, it will give justice," Mr Lubis said, adding that there should be no limit to uncovering the truth.
It will be submitted that in the 10 years that Sukumaran has been in prison, he has been rehabilitated, has set up rehabilitation programs inside the jail and helped scores of other prisoners to rehabilitate as well.
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Last hope ... Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Source: News Corp Australia
"If the purpose of any sentence is rehabilitation ... those who have made a significant change in their life should be given relief. It doesn't mean that he has to be freed because he has also admitted that he is guilty of a narcotic crime." Mr Lubis said.
"However, there are many forms of punishment. A life sentence or 20 years prison term or 25 years prison term. There are many forms of other punishment. I just want to ensure that the perspective of justice should be at the forefront," he said.
Sukumaran was told more than a week ago that his bid for Presidential clemency had been denied by the country's new President, Joko Widodo.
He and Chan have been on death row now since 2006 when they were convicted of their role in the so-called Bali Nine plot to smuggle 8.2kg of heroin from Bali to Sydney.
Diplomatic efforts ... Australian Consul in Bali Majell Hind visited Myuran Sukumaran in Kerobokan on January 16. Picture: Lukman S Bintoro Source: News Corp Australia
At the time that Sukumaran and other prisoners were learning their clemency had been rejected, a new hard line approach to drug traffickers on death row was being announced.
There would be no clemency and no compromise, the Government said, in announcing that five foreigners and one Indonesian would be executed today. The group is made up of four men and two women.
Five of them were shot dead by five firing squads of 12 paramilitary police at exactly the same time.
In chilling details, the group's last wishes and requests for what happens to their bodies have been detailed.
EMERGING TALENT: Myuran Sukumaran's art
Condemned ... Myuran Sukumaran pictured in the workshop in Kerobokan, where he runs art workshops and rehabilitation programs. Source: Supplied
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