The families of two Australian men awaiting a firing squad were allowed on to Nusa Kambangan yesterday. It was their first visit to the condemned men since they were moved last week to the prison island, off the coast of Java.
Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, were sentenced almost a decade ago for attempting to traffic 8kg of heroin from Bali to Australia.
The decision by Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s president, to end the unofficial moratorium on the death penalty has caused outrage in Australia because Chan and Sukumaran have completed degrees, set up courses for prisoners and renounced their former lifestyles.
The relatives spent more than four hours talking to the prisoners, but offered no comment on the condition or mindset of the men.
A court will hear an appeal on Thursday from Chan and Sukumaran, on the grounds that the president failed to consider their cases individually or take into account their rehabilitation work.