THE three Bali bombers on death row will be executed by firing squad at the end of the month, according to the Denpasar prosecutors office.
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Lawyers for Imam Samudra, 36, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 43, and Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, 46, had not lodged expected appeal documents, clearing the way for execution within weeks.
Bali's Denpost newspaper today quoted officials as saying time had run out for the men convicted over the 2002 truck bomb blasts at the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
The reported execution timetable could not be immediately confirmed by AAP today.
"We waited, but they have not been lodged," the paper quoted an unidentified official in the prosecutor's office as saying about the three men's appeals.
"It seems that by the end of July – to be exact July 30 – the execution will be done.
"We are just awaiting the orders of the attorney-general's office."
Lawyers for the three had promised to lodge appeals in May, basing their applications on the fact that anti-terrorism laws used to convict them were brought into force after the attacks.
In 2003 Indonesia's constitutional court ruled the use of retroactive legislation was illegal.
Indonesian Attorney-General Abdul Rahman Saleh has ruled the three, who have refused asking for presidential clemency, will be executed on the remote prison island of Nusakambangan off southern Java, dubbed "Indonesia's Alcatraz".
A spokesman for the Attorney-General refused to confirm the execution timetable, saying only that preparations for the firing squad have begun.
"What is clear is that it will be Nusakambangan, but we don't know the exact place yet," he told AAP.
Denpasar prosecutor Wayan Suwila also refused to confirm July 30 for the executions and said authorities might be trying to pressure lawyers to lodge their requests for Supreme Court judicial review, thereby halting the process as the appeals are considered.
"The impact of saying things like that would be too vast," he said.
"Maybe, just maybe, this is a tactic to provoke the lawyers."
The three bombers were moved to Nusakambangan last October on security grounds after Balinese incensed by triple suicide bombings rioted outside their Denpasar prison and demanded their immediate execution.
Balinese community leaders have demanded the trio be executed on the island where they committed their crimes.
Executions in Indonesia are carried out at dawn by hand-picked paramilitary police at a secret location, usually a patch of forest or a beach.
Meanwhile, the radical cleric jailed and later released for giving his blessings to the Bali bombings, Abu Bakar Bashir, is reportedly planning to join one of Indonesia's largest Islamic political parties.
The conservative Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (United Development Party) of former vice president Hamzah Haz has invited Bashir to become a member, the Indo Pos newspaper reported,
"The PPP is a party based on Islam, which is the same path followed by Ustadz (honoured teacher) Abu Bakar Bashir," the party's central Java branch head KH Thoyfoer said.
Bashir was released from jail on June 14 after serving a total of four years, including a sentence for involvement in the first Bali bombings.