Mixed messages for Bali Nine pair

The families of the Bali Nine pair on death row have made an emotional plea to save them.

INDONESIAN justice officials have given mixed messages about the fate of the condemned Bali Nine men.

The Attorney-General's office says plans by lawyers of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to launch a new legal challenge will not hamper plans to put the pair before a firing squad.

However, the Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly reportedly suggested that the Jakarta administration may "re-examine" the executions.

A spokesman for Attorney-General HM Prasetyo said the executions would go ahead despite the legal action but said it was not certain to be this month as previously stated.

The legal team plans to lodge a new action, in the State Administrative Court in Jakarta as early as today, challenging the blanket way in which the President denied their clemency bids.

Family hope ... Myuran Sukumaran's mother Raji and his family visit him everyday in Kerobokan Jail in Bali, fearing the worst. Picture: News Corp Australia. Source: News Corp Australia

In Bali, the head of the Denpasar Prosecutor's Office, Imaneul Zebua, said there was no orders yet from the Attorney General and the place and date of the executions was yet to be decided.

However, he said the two men could be moved at any time from Kerobokan jail in Bali to Nusa Kambangan island and without giving notice to their families.

Yesterday tearful prayers were held in the jail for the two men and their distraught families who have kept vigil in Bali for the past few weeks.

Bishop Ketut Siaga Waspada, the chairman of the Bali Church Union prayed firstly with Sukumaran and his family and then with Chan and the family.

The Bishop then toured the painting and rehabilitation workshops set up by Sukumaran and Chan and Sukumaran gifted him a freshly-painted and still wet self-portrait.

Bishop Ketut Waspada shows Myuran Sukumaran's self portrait, given to him by the condemned man himself, after his visit to Kerobokan Jail. Picture: News Corp Australia. Source: News Corp Australia

Despite being under the shadow of death Sukumaran has kept painting.

Outside the jail, Bishop Waspada said the Australians were helping fellow prisoners and he called for them to be used as anti-drugs campaigners, who had first-hand experience of the problem and had repented.

"If we really love our young people, it is for the future of young people," he said, adding that jails in Indonesia were called correctional facility.

In their new appeal the men's lawyers will argue that President Joko Widodo's use of a perceived "drug emergency" to reject all clemency pleas by drug traffickers failed to look at each case individually and take the merits of each case into account.

Indonesian officials have told the Australian Embassy in Jakarta that the two young men will be executed by firing squad this month, but no date has been set.

The Attorney General's spokesman Tony Tribagus Spontana said plans for the execution of up to eight drug traffickers were ongoing.

But asked by News Corporation if the executions would definitely be this month, Mr Spontana said: "Don't say this month. It hasn't been announced. They will be executed. The place, date, time, how many person, who, will be announced later."

He also suggested that the organisation of this round of executions would take longer than the previous executions on January 18 because the eight prisoners involved were currently detained in five different locations.

Arrangements will be needed to transport them to Nusa Kambangan Island, off Cilacap in Central Java.

Andrew Chan's brother Michael and his family continue to haunt Kerobokan Jail in Bali, hoping that a Chan and Sukumaran's lives can still be spared. Picture: News Corp Australia. Source: News Corp Australia

Chan and Sukumaran's lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis says that he will also write to the Supreme Court and the Judicial Commission, asking them to investigate claims that political interference in the case was the reason they got the death penalty.

The men's former lawyer says that both men were due to get a life sentence but at the last minute the order came down for them to get death.

"We feel very disturbed by that statement. If that is true then the Supreme Court should order an investigation into these matters, Mr Lubis said.

The families of Chan and Sukumaran, including their emotional mothers, yesterday travelled to Jakarta to make a plea to the President for mercy.

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