TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo confirmed that drug kingpin Freddy Budiman is on the list of the third round of executions.
“Freddy is on the list, and he will be executed in the third round [of executions]. Mary Jane [Veloso] is not [on the list] yet. Zulfiqar Ali is on the list, and so is Merry Utami,” Prasetyo said at the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) in Jakarta on Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
Prasetyo said that the AGO has prepared security personnel, police officers, firing squad personnel, and death row convicts. Prasetyo could not confirm the number of convicts to be executed. However, he said that there are 14 convicts on the execution list to this date.
The Attorney General also could not confirm whether the executions would be carried out this weekend.
He added that the preparation of the third round executions was being finalized. Families of the death row convicts, as well as embassies of their countries, have been notified.
AKMAL IHSAN | EKO ARI