Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in line to be executed in next group of death row inmates
HM Prasetyo last week said Australians were among the foreign drug offenders in line for executions, but didn't reveal their names.
Asked on Monday if Chan and Sukumaran were on the list for the next round, he told reporters: 'Yes, included in the next round.'
The timing was yet to be determined, he said. The pair have been on death row since 2006 and family and friends say they have totally reformed themselves since being behind bars.
Under a ruling by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, a judicial review - which Chan and Sukumaran had asked for - could only be heard if new evidence is able to be presented.
But lawyers for the two men had pleaded for a second judicial review based on the way the the prisoners had changed since their drug arrests, pointing out they had helped many other prisoners.
Their application for a second judicial review, accepted by the courts on Friday, included handwritten pleas from the men, and accounts of their rehabilitation behind bars at Bali's Kerobokan jail.
This was not accepted. Pleas to the President for clemency have also been rejected.
As far as the attorney-general is concerned, Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 33, exhausted their avenues for appeal when President Joko Widodo refused them clemency.
But he promised not to interfere with the court process.
'We hope the courts will see with clear vision how dangerous narcotics are to our nation,' he said.
'I will not influence that.'
Mr Prasetyo said planning was underway for the executions: 'We're just waiting for the right time.'
Indonesia has the toughest drug laws in the world, particularly since President Widodo came to power last year. He has made it clear that he wants his prisons emptied of people who are sitting in cells on death row by lining them up in front of firing squads.
And while many people hoped that his words were just a threat to deter drug smugglers, the fact that condemned men have now begun to be shot reveals that he intends to show no mercy.
Six people linked to drugs were executed last month, confirming that President Joko Widodo's new 'no mercy' policies will go adhered to.
The Netherlands and Brazil recalled their ambassadors from Jakarta after their citizens on death row were denied mercy for drug offences and were executed last month.
Australia has not ruled out the same action if the Bali Nine ringleaders are executed.
Mr Joko on Monday met Indonesia's ambassadors at a gathering in Jakarta, where he told them to explain to their respective countries that the death penalty was part of Indonesia's law.Ambassador to Australia, Najib Riphat Kesoema, was himself was recalled from Canberra in 2013 over the spying scandal.
He says Australians have to accept the executions 'because this is law enforcement in Indonesia'.
'I don't think there will be some difficulties in our diplomatic relations because the foundation of the relations is so good,' he told reporters.
He had received more than 100 letters from all levels of society in Australia concerning the coming executions.
On the other hand, he had seen reports of polling that found 52 per cent of Australians supported the executions.
Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran argue their sentences should be commuted to 20 years because of past misapplications of the law and their reform during a decade in prison.
However, it's uncertain the courts will allow a second judicial review in the case, with Indonesia's courts arguing over whether multiple reviews are permitted.
Indonesia's Attorney-General Mr Prasetyo said no date for the next round of executions had been set, but the deaths will go ahead as the two Australians had not been able to submit any new evidence that would change their fate.We do not interfere with the courts, but the information I heard was that the new evidence they filed was not new evidence,' said the Attorney-General.
He pointed out that the appeal by the pair for a judicial review focused on their rehabilitation, but what was lacking was new evidence about the actual case.
'New evidence is about something we didn't know when the trial took place that would have altered the sentence,' he said.
The families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran visited the Bali Nine ringleaders on Australia Day.
Chan's older brother Michael arrived first at Kerobokan prison in Denpasar, Bali, last Monday followed by Sukumaran's mother Raji, wearing dark sunglasses.
Sukumaran's younger brother, Chintu, walked into the jail with his younger sister, Brintha, both looking visibly upset after the visit - which may be one of the last times they see their sibling alive.
The relatives of Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 33, were accompanied by the Australian consul-general Bali Majel Hind.
Bali governor, Made Mangku Pastika, says he believes most Australians would support the execution of Chan and Sukumaran for heading an operation to smuggle 8kg of heroin into Australia in 2005.
'I think that our brothers and sisters from Australia will agree with the process and law here,' he said.
Speaking last week, a spokesman for Indonesia's attorney-general, Tony Spontana, said the executions of six drug offenders were still under evaluation.
'Evaluation on the first execution implementation is predicted to be finished this week,' he said on Monday, Channel Nine reported.
'After the evaluation of the first executions is finished, then we will prepare for the second round.'
Kerobokan prison governor Sudjonggo told reporters he saw Sukumaran meeting his mother and siblings in the visitors' hall, and Chan with his brother in a separate room.
'I don't want to bother them, let them make the most of the visiting hours,' he said.
'They have asked for more relaxed visiting hours, and with that, maybe (Sukumaran and Chan) will be stronger.'
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