Bali Nine duo in final days of life

The final journey of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran will see them taken to an Island off the coast of Bali where they will be executed.

Final hope ... Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran inside Kerobokan jail. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

ANDREW Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are now in their final days of their lives after it was confirmed they would be transferred from Kerobokan Prison in Bali to Nusakambangan today.

After weeks of uncertainty, the tragic reality was revealed yesterday by Momock Bambang Samiarso, the chief prosecutor of Bali, who said all arrangements were finalised and the two Australians would be flown to Nusakambangan for execution.

"The coordination has been completed. (The transfer) will be conducted tomorrow," Mr Samiarso said yesterday. "We plan at midday (local time, 3pm AEDT)."

But there was conjecture last night about what time the transfer would actually be carried out, with suggestions it could be as early as 6am local time (9am AEDT).

"We will see. Just stand by from morning," Mr Samiarso said.

Final days ... Myuran Sukumaran inside Kerobokan jail yesterday. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

Chan and Sukumaran will join eight other prisoners — mostly foreigners — for what is expected to be the biggest mass execution Indonesia has staged in decades.

Mr Samiarso said two aircraft, a CN-295 transport plane and a Hercules, will be used in the transfer. Chan and Sukumaran would be in the same plane and the rest of the coordinating team on the other.

Last night the Bali jail Governor, Sudjonggo, said that Chan and Sukumaran had been informed of the transfer.

He said the Australians understood their fate and had given some of their belongings and clothes to the remaining three Bali Nine members and other prisoners. They had also been advised what they could take with them when they leave the cells that have been their homes for the past decade.

Losing hope ... Andrew Chan behind bars at Kerobokan yesterday. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

Some of Sukumaran's paintings will be placed in a gallery, recently constructed outside the jail, as part of his passion for art.

Sudjonggo said the two men appeared calm and had told other prisoners to remain calm and take care.

Sukurmaran's devastated mother, Raji Sukumaran learnt the news as she left the jail after spending all day inside with her son. Earlier Chan's brother, Michael, had visited but had also left the jail.

Mother's plea ... Myuran Sukumaran's mother Raji, right, with Australian Consul in Bali, Majell Hind, outside Kerobokan jail. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said she was "dismayed" by the reports that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran would be transferred to the execution island.

"I am dismayed by reports that Andrew and Myuran are to be transferred by Indonesian authorities in preparation for their execution," Ms Bishop told News Corp Australia. "This is devastating news for the men and their families."

But Ms Bishop said she would not give up hope that the two men could be granted clemency.

"I will continue to contact counterpart Ministers to press for a stay of execution," she said.

"Given their rehabilitation, it is callous for these executions to proceed."

Support ... Michael Chan at Kerobokan jail in Denpasar after visiting his brother, Andrew Chan. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

The pair's Australian lawyer, Julian McMahon, went to see his clients shortly after the transfer announcement.

Lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis has pleaded with the Indonesian President and Attorney General not to transfer and execute the two Australians before they have exhausted all their legal appeals.

And he has revealed that the Judicial Commission, which is investigating claims of bribery requests from the judges who sentenced them to death originally, has asked for statements from Chan and Sukumaran and their first lawyer.

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"What is the point of having all this legal recourse available to you by the law if they don't respect it. That is a miscarriage of justice," Mr Lubis said late yesterday in Jakarta.

"So that is my plea to the Attorney General. That is my plea to the President. Please wait until all this legal process (is) completed," he said.

Mr Lubis and his team have lodged an appeal in the State Administrative Court in Jakarta against a decision not to hear their earlier case, questioning the way in which the clemency was rejected early this year.

Kerobokan prison Governor, Sudjonggo, addressing media at Kerobokan jail yesterday. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

And the Judicial Commission was now preparing to commence an investigation into the conduct of their original trials in the Denpasar District. They have also sought a statement from Muhammad Rifan, the men's original lawyer, who first raised the bribery allegations last month when he made a surprise visit to the men in jail.

All diplomacy appears, however, to have failed and all the men await is official confirmation of the 72-hour countdown to their deaths — the mandatory notice period under Indonesian law.

Andrew Chan. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

Myuran Sukumaran. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

Family, consular officials and spiritual advisers will have access to Chan and Sukumaran after they arrive on the island and are placed into isolation cells with the other condemned prisoners.

It was clear in Cilacap, the city closest to the prison island, that the moves were underway when two military helicopters were yesterday deployed to the airfield at Cilacap.

The camouflaged Bell choppers, owned by the Indonesian military or TNI, will be used to take the men on a short five to seven minute flight to the execution island once they arrive today after a one hour and 45 minute flight from Bali.

Two Sukhoi fighter jets again flew over the Bali prison yesterday in what has become a routine display of Indonesian might and intimidation.

Intimidating ... Two Sukhoi jets in the airspace above Kerobokan jail yesterday. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied

Six of the 10 people due to be shot are already on the island.

Two other death-row prisoners, Nigerian Raheem Agbaje Salami, and Filipino woman Mary Jane Fiesta Velosa, were yesterday in the process of being transferred by road from their mainland Java prisons to Cilacap and then to be ferried the short distance across to the island where they will die.

The transfer of Salami and Velosa was understood to be a low-key affair compared to what has been organised for the Australians, who will be shifted in a major police and military operation.

The horrific event, which will see each of the victims lined up before his or her own 12-man firing squad, is now beyond intervention.

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