Indonesia has asked foreign embassies to send representatives to a maximum security prison ahead of the expected execution of 10 drug convicts, although an official 72-hour notice of execution has not been given yet.
Among the convicted drug offenders set to face the firing squad are nationals from Nigeria Australia, Brazil and France.
Security was heightened on Friday at the prison island of Nusakambangan off the Javanese port of Cilacap, where the executions will take place.
It was not immediately clear why the representatives from the four countries had been summoned.
A police spokesman said orders to prepare the firing squad had not yet come from the Attorney-General’s office.
The Attorney-General has been waiting for all the legal processes of the 10 death row inmates to be completed before announcing an execution date.
Lawyers were scrambling to various Indonesian courts in a last-ditch attempt to delay the execution.
But the only outstanding appeal considered still valid by the Attorney-General was for an Indonesian national.
Indonesia has harsh punishments for drug crimes and resumed executions in 2013 after a five-year gap. Six executions have been carried out so far this year.
