Attorney-General spokesman, Tony Spontana, said the executors surveying the facilities on Nusakambangan penal Island, off Javafound, discovered that it was not ready to handle the executions.
“The execution plan is still on schedule” since the inmates’ clemency appeals have been rejected,’’ he said.
Spontana said because of the technical reasons, the executions are likely to be postponed for two or three weeks.
“We have not decided on a date yet, but once the renovation is finished we will immediately transfer them, maybe next week or two weeks,” he said.
Other convicts are from Brazil, France, Ghana, the Philippines, Australia and Indonesia.
They are all expected to be shot by firing squad in the second round of executions this year.
The Australian government has repeatedly appealed to Indonesia to show mercy to its citizens -Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran- who were described as ringleaders of a group of nine Australians arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin to Australia from the Indonesian resort Island of Bali.
This week, the family of the Brazilian drug convict, Rodrigo Gularte, also appealed to the government to spare him, saying he has been diagnosed with mental illness."
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