Myuran Sukumaran opens up about his mental struggle on death row and desire to help others if given a second chance. Editing/Subtitlng Footage supplied by Karen Gall.
Official duties ... Australian Consul in Bali Majell Hind gets off a traditional boat after visiting Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in Besi prison on Nusakambangan Island. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied
MYURAN Sukumaran has spoken frankly and passionately of his wrongdoing and of how he believes he deserves a second chance to continue doing good in the jail and eventually one day on the outside.
The interview, shot inside Kerobokan prison in May last year, is contained in a documentary being made by Karen Gall, who recently made its contents available as Sukumaran and Andrew Chan face execution by firing squad.
It comes as a painting of the Indonesian President Joko Widodo, which Sukumaran did after learning his clemency had been denied, was released. His sign off was simple yet poignant: "People Can Change."
Second chance ... Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran chats to Norwegian educator Ivar Schou. Source: News Corp Australia
In the video interview, Sukumaran speaks with Norwegian educator Ivar Schou, with whom he worked inside Kerobokan prison setting up and running rehabilitation programs for prisoners and who has become a firm friend.
"I accept what I did was wrong and I know that I should be punished for it but I do think the death penalty is too excessive and I should be given a chance," Sukumaran says as he talks with Mr Schou.
"I've demonstrated that I can do good and be good and I think I can do a lot of good in the outside if I did ever go free you know. It's not like I'm ever just going to go back after all this and just sit and just be somewhere. I'd want to do stuff like work and make good stuff and help people, that's what I'd be hoping to do."
Staying positive ... Myuran Sukumaran even manages to crack a smile during the video. Source: News Corp Australia
Sukumaran tells of his transformation, from a selfish individual to someone working to better himself and other prisoners. He tells how for his first five years in Kerobokan he didn't do much but then his life changed for the better.
"(Life's) changed a lot. The first five years I didn't do much with my life. It was pretty much spent inside the prison. I pretty much woke up every morning, I did some sport, I ate, I waited (until) lockdown. I woke up the next day and repeated again. Then occasionally I'd have somebody visit me. I pretty much did that for five years," Sukumaran says.
"In 2009 they finally gave us permission to start working and doing some projects. Slowly slowly it helped me with my life. It kept me busy. It helped me be productive. I started learning and I was able to help other people learning."
Message of hope ... Sukumaran's painting of Indonesian President Joko Widodo has the words "People can change" written n the back. Picture: Zul Edoardo Source: News Corp Australia
Sukumaran tells how he has had a lot of time to reflect on the tangent his life his life has taken and that five years of thinking in his cell helped him realise what he wanted from life.
"You think about how to achieve these things. I don't know ... somehow it's only through helping people that I've found it, to put something back into this life. I cant do much else. I can sit around doing nothing, I can be productive or I can be destructive. They are my only three choices I have inside here. The only thing I've found out is that being productive makes me happy."
No date set ... Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are facing the firing squad. Source: Supplied
of one prisoners, a Filipino woman whose decision is pending.
"People Can Change", was Sukumaran's message, with his sign-off on the back of a painting he did of Indonesia's President Joko Widodo at the end of January.
Several weeks earlier Sukumaran had learned that the President had denied his request for clemency and that he was among the list of those to be executed next.
Personal message ... Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran has these words for Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Picture: Zul Edoardo Source: News Corp Australia
Emotional and distressed, and uncertain about his future Sukumaran was urged to take up the brushes and paints and immerse himself again in his passion for painting.
So the first portrait he painted after learning the dreadful news of his clemency rejection was of the very man who had denied him mercy — Joke Widodo, popularly known in Indonesia as Jokowi.
On the back he signed off — People Can Change.
Painting has become Sukumaran's refuge and after painting Jokowi he returned to teaching art in the jail at Kerobokan in his beloved art workshop. It was an important step on the painful journey he and Andrew Chan are now on.
An exhibition and auction of Sukumaran's paintings, along with other prisoner art from Kerobokan jail is being planned for Friday night in Bali.
It is understood that the Jokowi portrait will be on display at the exhibition.
The exhibition will feature artworks done by the prisoners of Kerobokan who have been mentored and tutored by Sukumaran over the past few years and whose lives have been transformed by his art classes.
Many of them are now free and are still painting and planning to set up the Bali Nine gallery in Bali and money raised from the exhibition will be used to start the gallery and to buy art supplies for the jail art program.
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