By Ainur Rohmah
JAKARTA
Supporters of ten drug convicts on death row in Indonesia are preparing for the one last legal challenge that may prevent their execution.
A spokesman for Indonesia's attorney general said that the date of execution for the nationals from seven different countries will be set Monday once a final appeal by an Indonesian drug trafficker is known.
"If Zainal's appeal is rejected, it will complete the [appeals of] the inmates," Tony Spontana said, according to Indonesian website detik.com.
Indonesia has said it will wait until all appeals have been exhausted before the ten face the firing squad.
Diplomats from each country have also been summoned to meet on Saturday at Cilacap, near the remote penal island of Nusa Kambangan in Java, where the convicted drugs smugglers will be shot by firing squad.
On Friday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he did not know when the executions would take place.
Two of the ten are Australians - Bali nine organizers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
"We are in the hands of the Indonesian authorities," Abbott said from Turkey, where he is attending commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the Canakkale war.
"We continue to make our position clear. I guess there's always hope while there's life but obviously these are late days."
Spontana has said that the prisoners will be given at least three days notice before they are shot.
"The theme of the executions will be the war on drugs," he added.
Australia has repeatedly pleaded for clemency for its two nationals, while France has warned that the execution of Serge Areski Atlaoi could damage relations.
On Friday, Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay was expected to meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo to make a final appeal for mercy on behalf of Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso.
Early morning, Veloso was transported in an armored police vehicle from Wirogunan Prison in Yogyakarta, Java island, to a port, from where she was then taken by ferry to Nusa Kambangan.
Zainal Arifin, warden at Worigunan Prison, said the 30-year-old appeared calm during the transfer and prayed with two prison officials before departing.
"Mary Jane was sleeping when security personnel came to take her. Then we woke her up," Metro TV quoted Zainal, who accompanied Veloso on her journey, as saying.
"She didn't cry and was very calm."
Family members - including Veloso's 6- and 12-year-old sons - had been planning to visit her alongside migrant rights groups Friday, but reports said that they missed her by a matter of hours.
Her legal team have said they have prepared evidence that shows that Veloso - a single mother who sought work in Malaysia as a maid - is the victim of an international drugs syndicate.
Outside of the Australian, Indonesian, Philippines and French nationals, Martin Anderson from Ghana, Rodrigo Gularte (Brazil), Raheem Agbajee Salami, Okwudili Oyatanze and Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise (Nigeria, although Salami is travelling on a Spanish passport) also face execution.
