Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan have arrived at the island where it is expected they will be executed.
Reality sets in ... Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on the plane to Nusakambangan. Picture: Supplied Source: The Advertiser
THE executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and eight others may be further delayed.
A source has revealed to News Corp that on Wednesday night the Attorney-General's office called Bali prosecutions officials to tell them there was a further delay.
The team from the Bali office, who accompanied Chan and Sukumaran on their flight from Bali to Java on Wednesday and who were to be present and officiate at the executions is now in the process of returning to Bali.
A News Corporation source close to the execution organisation says the instruction to delay came from the Attorney General and that the Bali team had now stood down.
It is understood they are flying from Yogyakarta to Bali late today.
Further delays ... Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran face a lengthy wait. Source: Supplied
The first day of the hearing, which heard witness testimony, was Wednesday and the case has now been sent to the Supreme Court for a decision which is pending and for which there is no date.
Final humiliation ... an Indonesian official poses for a photo with Bali Nine ringleader Andrew Chan at Bali airport. Source: Supplied
Her judicial review relates to her lack of a proper translator at her original trial. The translator appointed spoke English but Veloso speaks Tagalog.
Indonesia's Attorney-General has suggested that the executions could be ten days off yet.
"The notice is at least three days before the execution, could have 10 days," HM Prasetyo said.
And he said Australia's offer to exchange prisoners was "not relevant" to this case.
"Now, I ask you, are you willing to exchange the people who have poisoned our nation? it's unbalanced. But, the point is that it has never been conducted, and never thought of," Mr Prasetyo said.
News Corp has learned prosecutors from all different regions of Indonesia, who had come to Cilacap to prepare, have all been stood down and gone home.
Prosecutors from the regions where the other 10 were convicted were also arriving in Cilacap in preparation for the executions.
The development comes as outrage grows over the major operation to shift Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Bali to Java, during which Indonesian officers on the flight treated the condemned men like tourists attractions.
Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran on the airport tarmac. Source: Supplied
Clearly, Chan had no choice but to comply with the pitiless and unthinking officer.
Though the Indonesian police and military did their best to prevent the media getting images during the transfer, they had their own phones out in force, snapping pictures of the tragic pair.
The photo of Denpasar police chief Djoko Hari Utomo on the plane, which was published on Kompas.com, is a new low in what was a farcical event.
After New Corp first reported the story, Senior Commissioner Djoko today denied the photograph was a heartless selfie.
He told Fairfax Media he was trying to raise Chan and Sukumaran's spirits and had no idea the photo was being taken, even though he is looking directly at the camera.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will tomorrow lodge a formal complaint over the pictures with the Indonesian Ambassador at its offices in Canberra.
The news came as details emerged about the block of four cells where Chan and Sukumaran are being held in Besi prison on Nusa Kambangan.
Horror journey ... Helen and Michael Chan arrive at Jogjakarta Airport. Source: Supplied
They are not in isolation cells and are with a Nigerian prisoner who was transported by road to Nusa Kambangan at the same time as them but without the dramatic fanfare of a military jet fighter escort and who is also slated for imminent execution.
Ursa Supit has been working with Nigerian death row inmate Raheem Agbaje Salami and was allowed to spend about 35 to 45 minutes with him in a small office in a garden area adjacent to the block of four holding cells.
Nightmare ... Myuran Sukumaran's family lands in Jogjakarta. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia
The fourth cell in the block is currently vacant.
Ms Supit said she did not see Chan and Sukumaran and that Raheem has not seen them either.
But they have been talking to each other by calling out as the cells are in one row next to each other.
So far the Australians' lawyers and family, who arrived in Cilacap on Thursday have not seen the two men.
Hundreds of police and military, along with armoured personnel carriers and jets, were deployed to shift two men who offered no threat of escape and had become pawns in a game of international brinkmanship.
Families travel for last goodbye
THE families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have begun the long journey to Central Java to spend what could be the last days with the two young Australians.
Sukumaran's parents, Sam and Raji and siblings Chinthu and Brintha along with Chan's mother Helen and brother Michael, all flew this morning from Bali to Jogjakarta.
Long road ahead ... Raji Sukumaran, her family members and the family of Andrew Chan now make the five-hour drive to Cilacap. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia
They were accompanied by Australian Consul to Bali, Majel Hind and consulate staff and family friends of the Chans.
The group will now make the arduous drive from Jogjakarta to Cilacap, the port town on the south coast of Java closest to Nusa Kambangan Island where Chan and Sukumaran were yesterday moved in high security show of force from Indonesia's police and military.
They hope to be able to spend time with Chan and Sukumaran however access from now on is expected to be much more limited than it has been for the past month at Kerobokan jail,where they have visited every day, often for the whole day.
Family and supporters ... Sukumaran's bother Chintu accompanied by Australian Consul Majell Hind arrive at Jogjakarta Airport on their way to Cilacap. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied
But it is unknown whether family and supporters of the condemned men will be allowed on to the island when they get there.
A short time ago at the port in Cilacap, close by the prison island of Nusakambangan, a pastor from the local charismatic Bethel Church who wanted to hold a service for the Christian death-row inmates was denied entry.
He was told the prisoners were already in isolation.
"I wanted to give a spiritual service for the Christians," said pastor Samuel Sudiharjo, who has counselled death-row prisoners in the past.
"It was not permitted. They are already in sterile conditions in isolation. I cannot give the service."
A Christian boy band that knew Chan from visits to Jerobokan were also turned back, but the cousin of death-row Brazilian, Rodrigo Gularte, and an embassy official were permitted entry.
Executions not this week: President
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the Bali nine ringleaders won't be executed this week, but it would happen soon. The pair was moved yesterday to Nusakambangan Island jail, where they will eventually be killed by firing squad.
Mr Widodo gave an interview to Al-Jazeera last night, but made the comments off-camera, according to Jakarta-based reporter Step Vaessen. The report has not been confirmed.
The condemned pair will be given 72 hours' notice prior to the execution, in which they can meet with consular officials, loved ones and spiritual advisers.
Yesterday afternoon there was a meeting of officials in Cilacap to confirm the execution date, which will come shortly after midnight and be conducted in a purpose-built killing field on Nusakambangan.
Indonesia's Attorney- General, HM Prasetyo, said authorities were still deciding how many people would be executed.
"We are still evaluating. It does not mean that we are doubtful or scared. But this is related with life," Mr Prasetyo said.
"All are drug cases. We want to show, send a message to others, the world, that Indonesia is currently working hard to combat drugs."
Final journey ... Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran chat to the head of the corrections department at Kerobokan before their transfer to Nusakambangan Island. Source: Supplied
Bishop's prisoner swap plea
The news comes as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop last night proposed an 11th-hour prisoner swap deal to Jakarta.
In a tense 30-minute phone call, Ms Bishop reportedly offered to expatriate three convicted drug criminals to spare the lives of Sukumaran and Chan. It is believed the deal was not accepted.
Ms Bishop joined other politicians in a candle light vigil for the doomed Australian men, hosted by the Australian Parliamentarians Against the Death Penalty group
Vigil ... Ms Bishop and her Opposition counterpart Tanya Plibersek light candles for the condemned Bali Nine ringleaders. Source: News Corp Australia
First night on execution island
Chan and Sukumaran have spent their first night on Indonesia's execution island as they await their executions.
Their families are expected to arrive in Cilacap, the nearest town to the island alter today, flying from Sydney and Bali.
They will be allowed to visit the men, Indonesia's Attorney-General HM Prasetyo says, but he is yet to announce a date for the executions, saying only it will be as soon as possible.
The prisoners will get 72 hours' notice of the executions.
Reality sets in ... Andrew Chan on the plane to Nusakambangan. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
In a brutal show of force, Chan and Sukumaran were treated like vicious international terrorists during their transfer to Nusakambangan prison island for their execution.
The rehabilitated drug criminals were handcuffed and chained at the feet as members of the special Gegana anti-terror unit, hiding behind balaclavas, led the men on to a flight in Bali early on Wednesday morning.
Excessive force ... Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran pictured on the tarmac at Cilacap airport — on his way to Nusakambangan Island. Source: Supplied
The use of hundreds of police, armoured personnel carriers and fighter jets that screamed alongside as the Australians were flown from Bali to Java was excessive and macabre, as Indonesia went all out to expose the men to a final humiliation.
Chan and Sukumaran were brave but looked scared as they were led up the steps of the plane for the one hour and 45 minute flight west, accompanied by 35 armed guards and a handful of prosecutors.
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Final leg ... a ferry transfers Indonesian police vehicles carrying Chan and Sukumaran to Nusakambangan island. Source: AP
Upon arrival in Cilacap on south Java, they were shuffled into Barracuda armoured personnel carriers followed by mini-vans loaded to the gunnels with paramilitary officers brandishing assault rifles.
A flyover of the final journey for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Bali to Nusa Kambangan prison where they'll be housed before their execution.
Four fighter jets armed with what appeared to be sidewinder missiles shot over the Cilacap airport after the charter plane delivered the men, then circled back over the airfield flying low and titling their wings to signify victory.
Armed guards ... Myuran Sukumaran sits on the plane to the prison island of Nusakambangan. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
The extraordinarily disproportionate show of muscle was final confirmation that Indonesia will not retreat from its plans to execute the Australians and up to eight others.
Correctional head Nyoman Putra Surya said Chan and Sukumaran had been given ample opportunity to meet their families over the past six weeks. "They have been promised that the mothers and the brothers will see them in Cilacap," he said.
Indonesia's Attorney General HM Prasetyo, speaking in Jakarta, did not apologise for the farcical show of force used during the transfer. "Of course there were teams that guard them," he said. "This is a long journey. They are not a tourist."
By comparison to the hysteria surrounding the transfer of Chan and Sukumaran, Nigerian death-row prisoner Raheem Agbaje Salami arrived on Wednesday from a prison in Madiun, in East Java, in a solitary van.
It leaves little doubt the performance was entirely for Australia's benefit.
Death march ... Myuran Sukumaran is escorted by armed guards at Cilacap airport., Source: Supplied
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