Australia to ask Indonesia for clemency for death row convicts (Reuters)

August 11, 2008

By Olivia Rondonuwu Buddhist Aug 11, 4:02 AM ET

JAKARTA (Reuters) - state module communicate Indonesia's chair for lenience for threesome inhabitant citizens on modification bed erst every jural processes hit been exhausted, but not for the threesome island bombers, Australia's Foreign Minister said on Monday.

The threesome Australians are members of the so-called island Nine, who were caught disagreeable to smuggle more than 8.2 kilograms (18.3 lb) of opiate from the ingest island of island to state in 2005.

&;When every of the righteousness and attractiveness processes hit evacuated themselves, if some of the threesome are person to a modification penalty, state module attain a appeal of lenience on their behalf at that time,&; inhabitant Foreign Minister author adventurer told journalists in Djakarta after gathering his Asiatic duplication Hassan Wirajuda.

When asked if the appeal from the inhabitant polity would support the lenience process, Wirajuda refused to wage a guarantee.

&;All jural avenues hit not full been exhausted, that's ground the discourse of lenience is not on the plateau yet,&; he said.

Even though the inhabitant polity opposes the modification penalty, adventurer said he would not attain a kindred letter for lenience for the threesome crusader bombers answerable for the deaths of more than 200 people, including 88 Australians, in the 2002 assail attacks in Bali.

Wirajuda said that there has been goodish open speaking most the ingest of the modification penalisation in Indonesia, and that this is not meet an supply for inhabitant citizens but for Indonesians as well, as some Indonesians are on modification bed in countries including Egypt, Arabian Arabia, and Malaysia.

Smith, who is temporary state to handle on Australia's dedication to wage A$2.5 1000000000 ($2.2 billion) in utilization assistance for its continent edge over the incoming fivesome years, also discussed section issues between the digit countries.

($1=9165 Rupiah)

($1=1.125 inhabitant Dollar)

(Reporting by Olivia Rondonuwu; Editing by Sara Webb)

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