Oz Foreign Minister Suspects Judges in Bali Nine Trial Bribed
19 October 2018 15:48 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Canberra – Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop hopes that the 10-day delay in the executions of Australian drug convicts Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran could be a sign that the Indonesian government would change its mind about the planned executions.
“I hope this represents a change of mind,” Bishop said as reported by Sidney Morning Herald on Friday, March 6, 2015.
In addition, Bishop suggested that the delay would allow Indonesia’s Judicial Commission (KY) to investigate claims that judges of the case were bribed during the trial of the two Australians.
According to Bishop, the KY had asked Chan and Sukumaran for statements about the bribery allegations, so there could be other reasons for the execution delay. She ensured that she would not give up hope that a solution for the two Australians could be found.
“I am not giving up while they are still alive,” Bishop asserted.
For about a week, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has still not responded to a request by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot for a “final call” to plead for the lives of Chan and Sukumaran.
The two death-row convicts have been transferred from Krobokan penitentiary, Bali, to prison island Nusakambangan to wait for the executions.
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