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Indonesia’s Attorney General HM Prasetyo has announced he will delay the scheduled transfer of the Bali Nine drug smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan to a location in Central Java. Its been revealed that Indonesian authorities had planned to fly the pair from their Bali prison as early as tomorrow morning – in preparation for their executions. Meanwhile Tony Abbott has vowed a ‘tough response’ against Indonesia if it goes ahead with the state sanctioned killings without allowing the pair to exhaust all of their legal avenues -including fresh allegations of bribery against the judges who sentenced them. But what does this mean for the efforts to save the pair? And more broadly is there anything more the Australian government can do? Dom Vukovic has this report

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Tuesday, February 17 2015
Produced By Dom Vukovic
Featured in storyProfessor Tim Lindsey, Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the Melbourne Law SchooAssociate Professor Greg Fealy, expert in Indonesian relations, Australian National University
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