Chan and Sukumaran told to prepare for execution

Indonesian authorities have ordered Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to be moved out of prison to an island to be prepared for execution 'as soon as possible'.

This is despite several appeals for their lives from the Australian government.

Momock Bambang Samiarso, head of Bali Provincial Prosecutor's Office, said a meeting on Thursday afternoon confirmed the Australians would be executed outside of Bali, but he wouldn't say where.

"On the timing, there will be another meeting," he told reporters.

"But we ask it to be as soon as possible."

The pair were convicted of heroin trafficking in Indonesia in 2006 and put on death row.


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Today Australia tried to step up the pressure on Indonesia to spare the lives of two drug smugglers facing the firing squad.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned their execution would be a grave injustice.

Chan and Sukumaran, the Australian ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" heroin drug smuggling gang, were arrested in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year.

The pair recently lost their final appeals to Indonesian President Joko Widodo for clemency despite arguing that they had rehabilitated themselves in prison. They could face the firing squad this month.

In an emotional speech in parliament, Bishop pleaded for their lives.Read more