Bali Nine duo on way to death island

The final journey of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran will see them taken to an Island off the coast of Bali where they will be executed.

Death island ... Nusa Kambangan Island's prisons complex, off the coast of Central Java, Indonesia where the Indonesian government plans to execute Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Source: Supplied

ANDREW Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be moved this week to the island where they will be executed.

Bali's chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso says the two Australians will be taken to Nusa Kambangan prison, off Cilacap in Central Java in the coming days but a firm has yet to be set.

Here on the island, in one of the six prisons on the island, the pair will live out their final days until executions.

It is expected they will be put into isolation in the Batu prison. This is the same prison where the notorious Bali bombers were housed before their execution.

Mr Samiarso's comments came after a planning meeting in Bali this afternoon to map out the process for moving and then executing Chan and Sukumaran.

Asked when they would be moved, Mr Samiarso said: "Soon. I hope within this week."

He said the pair would be flown from Bali to Cilacap, the town nearest Nusa Kambangan Island, for transfer to the prison.

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

Mr Samiarso said a charter flight, with 20 or 30 police and security officials, would fly the two men from Bali.

He said so far there was no date set for the execution but the family would be advised three days in advance that it was happening.

Bali Police chief, Benny Mokalu, who also attended the meeting, said police and military personnel would be involved in the move.

Earlier, Prime Minister Tony Abbott personally pleaded with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to grant mercy to Chan and Sukumaran.

"The Indonesian government doesn't normally go ahead with executions of this type while there are legal options still available," he said.

"And that's what we're saying to the Indonesian government: given that there are legal options that apparently are still there, let's not do this dreadful, final, irrevocable thing any time soon."

Meanwhile a new Lowy Institute poll has found that 62 per cent of Australians oppose the men's execution.

Emotional moments ... Myuran Sukumaran's mother Raji visits Kerobokan Jail. Picture: Lukman Bintoro. Source: News Corp Australia

Most of the 1211 randomly-selected adults also oppose the death penalty for drug trafficking in general.

Mr Abbott said the government was "straining every fibre" to prevent the pair from facing the firing squad in coming weeks.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Australia has offered to help Indonesia get their own citizens off death rows overseas if Chan and Sukumaran are spared.

"We are more than prepared to work with them in their pleas for clemency for Indonesian nationals on death row elsewhere, particularly in the Middle East," she told the Seven Network.

"This would be a grave injustice, indeed a wasted opportunity for Indonesia to show how well its prison system rehabilitates its prisoners."

Family supporters ... Myuran Sukumaran's father visits Kerobokan Jail. Picture: Lukman Bintoro. Source: News Corp Australia

Bali's Governor Made Pastika has called on Australians not to boycott Bali and for the Australian Government to respect Indonesian law.

Mr Pastika, a former police officer and former head of the country's National Narcotics Agency, reiterated controversial statistics quoted by the Indonesian President as rationale for the stepping up of drug trafficker executions.

"Drugs is very dangerous for us, for the Government. You know in Indonesia there is about 50 person died every day because of drugs, 50 people," said Mr Pastika.

Indonesian Foreign Ministry officials were due to meet Australian embassy officials in Jakarta.

Stay with us ... The Governor of Bali, right, Made Mangku Pastika, has urged Australia not to boycott Bali. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro. Source: Supplied

Indonesia's Foreign Ministry invited all embassies with citizens to be executed to the meeting, for the purpose of spelling out the logistics, including media coverage.

However no date has yet been set for when the two Australians and nine others who will face the firing squad for drug crimes.

The tense wait for the two young Sydney men, whose lawyers are working overtime to save their lives continues.

Chan and Sukumaran were again yesterday visited in Kerobokan prison by their families, however Chan's ailing parents made the heartbreaking decision to return home due to ill health.

The pair was among nine Australians arrested in 2005 in Bali for heroin trafficking.

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