Indonesia to execute 57 drug offenders

"They have not yet been executed," he said through a cellular phone.

Their lawyer, Bambang Sri Wahono said later in the afternoon that Anthony and Okoye had contacted their wives at 1 pm informing that they had just signed minutes on the implementation of their execution.

Two ambulances carrying two coffins entered Wijayapura port of Cilacap district at 4.30 am Thursday. The coffins will be ferried to the Nusakambangan Island where the prison for two convicted is located.

"We were called at 24 hours last night to deliver two coffins to Nusakambangan at 4.30 am," the ambulance crew said.

The two ambulances were transported to Nusakambangan at about 5 am by the `Pengayonam II` ferry belonging to the Ministry of Legal and Human Rights Affairs.

On Tuesday, prosecutors said that the execution of the two Nigerian nationals would be done in secret. "The date of the execution is not to be made public to prevent public controversy," Monang Pardede, assistant deputy to the General Crimes chief of the Central Java higher prosecutor`s office, said on Tuesday.

Director of Narcotics Affairs at the National Police`s Criminal Investigation Department, Brig. Gen. Indardi Thanos, was quoted by `Media Indonesia` daily on Tuesday last week as saying that Okoye and Anthony would be executed in late July 2008 at the latest.

He said the National Police were ready for the execution to be carried out on International Anti-Narcotics Day on June 26.

Okoye was sentenced to death by ...