Lawyers for the two Australian men sentenced to death for their part in the Bali Nine drug smuggling attempt have hit out at an Indonesian court’s decision to reject a last-ditch application for a review of their case.

Hasoloan Sianturi, spokesman for the Denpasar court, told media on Wednesday afternoon neither application could be accepted and the documents would not be sent to the supreme court for assessment.

The application - known as a PK - was a controversial last-ditch attempt to save the two Australian men from execution. Indonesia’s constitutional court ruled prisoners could file more than one, but the supreme court disagreed, leaving the twin peaks of the country’s judicial system at loggerheads.

However the Indonesian lawyer for the pair, Todung Mulya Lubis, told Guardian Australia the rejection “can be considered violation of the constitutional court decision.”

“[The] constitutional court decision is final and binding, and every court should adhere to that decision. I regret the rejection and reserve a right to take any possible legal recourse available,” he said late Wednesday.

The Denpasar district court agreed to accept the application last Friday and spent most of this week deliberating before rejecting it.

Indonesia’s minister of law and human rights said a new regulation to be issued in a few months time would allow multiple judicial reviews but until then only one was permitted, including for Sukumaran and Chan, Fairfax reported.

Sukumaran and Chan were sentenced to death for their part in an attempt to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin from Bali in 2005.

They now face execution by firing squad with as little as 72 hours’ notice.

Last week the attorney-general HM Prasetyo said the two Australians would be among the next group of convicted people to be executed.

Planning for the executions did not pause while the PK was being considered but by late Tuesday at least, no date had been set, a spokesman told Guardian Australia. The preferred location remains the island of Nusakambangan, off the coast of central Java, where six executions were carried out in January of this year.

Prasetyo told media in Jakarta some embassies had been notified that their citizens now faced imminent execution but would not say which ones.

The Australian embassy in Jakarta told Guardian Australia they would not be commenting on the matter. The office of prime minister Tony Abbott has been contacted for comment.

Sukumaran and Chan have had multiple visitors at Kerobokan prison over recent days, including family, friends and supporters. Their legal team and campaigners have focused on the lengths to which the two men have been rehabilitated, among other legal arguments.

Sukumaran runs an art studio and classes for past and present inmates inside the prison.

“The authorities in the jail have had such success in rehabilitating its prisoners, now it would be real shame to end that rather than celebrate that,” said Australian artist Matt Sleeth outside the prison on Tuesday.

A variety of groups and people have come out in support to plead for mercy for the two men, including current and former Indonesian judges who have spoken out about the uselessness of the death penalty as a deterrent. Maruarar Siahaan, who sat on the 2007 constitutional court panel to hear the Australian men’s appeal, blamed poor enforcement for continuing drug crime.

“When the opportunity to escape detection is high, the threat of the death penalty won’t scare those who are in business of drugs,” he told AAP.

President Joko Widodo, who rejected both clemency appeals, has vowed to take a hard line against drugs smugglers in Indonesia.

Puri Kencana Putri, head of research at Indonesian human rights group KontraS, criticised the decision.

“Both Andrew and Myuran have a right to get proper access to justice, after more than a decade behind bars and the willingness to rectify their wrongdoing in the past,” she told Guardian Australia.

“By executing them in the near future, I’m sure the government will never reduce the rate of drug-related offences in Indonesia.”

The widespread idea of the death penalty “demonstrated a profound signal that the Indonesian government doesn’t have any roadmap enough to resolve the root cause of ‎the illicit drug trade in Indonesia,” the statement continued.

She said there was no transparency or evaluation of the Indonesian narcotics agency (BNN), which was established in 2002.

Two Australians convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia have lost their final chance to appeal against their death sentences after an Indonesian district court rejected an application for their cases to be reviewed.

Lawyers for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran applied on Friday for a second judicial review of their case, examining past errors of the law and their transformation after more than a decade in jail.

Hasoloan Sianturi, the Denpasar district court spokesman, told reporters the application had been rejected.



The spokesman said after considering the documents put forward for a judicial review, known as a PK, neither man’s application could be accepted.



“The documents of that PK will not be sent to the supreme court,” he told reporters in Bali.

Chan and Sukumaran were two of nine Australians – known as the Bali Nine – convicted in 2005 in Indonesia of heroin trafficking.



Indonesia’s minister of law and human rights said a new regulation to be issued in a few months would allow multiple judicial reviews but until then only one was permitted, Fairfax reported.



Sukumaran and Chan now face execution by firing squad with as little as 72 hours’ notice.

Last week, the attorney general, HM Prasetyo, said the two Australians would be among the next group to be executed.

Planning for the executions did not pause while the PK was being considered but by late Tuesday no date had been set, a spokesman told Guardian Australia. The preferred location remains the island of Nusakambangan, off the coast of central Java, where six executions were carried out in January.

Prasetyo told media in Jakarta some embassies had been notified that their citizens faced imminent execution but would not say which.

The Australian embassy in Jakarta said it would not be commenting on the matter. The office of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, has been contacted for comment.

Sukumaran and Chan have had multiple visitors at Kerobokan prison over recent days, including family, friends and supporters. Their legal team and campaigners have focused on the lengths to which the two men have been rehabilitated, among other legal arguments.

Sukumaran runs an art studio and classes for past and present inmates inside the prison.

“The authorities in the jail have had such success in rehabilitating its prisoners, now it would be real shame to end that rather than celebrate that,” said Australian artist Matt Sleeth outside the prison on Tuesday.

A variety of groups and people have come out in support to plead for mercy for the two men, including current and former Indonesian judges who have expressed their doubts over the death penalty as a deterrent. Maruarar Siahaan, who sat on the 2007 constitutional court panel to hear the Australians’ appeal, blamed poor enforcement for continuing drug crime.

“When the opportunity to escape detection is high, the threat of the death penalty won’t scare those who are in business of drugs,” he told AAP.

President Joko Widodo, who rejected both clemency appeals, has vowed to take a hard line against drugs smugglers in Indonesia.

Puri Kencana Putri, head of research at Indonesian human rights group KontraS, criticised the decision.

“Both Andrew and Myuran have a right to get proper access to justice, after more than a decade behind bars and the willingness to rectify their wrongdoing in the past,” she told Guardian Australia.

“By executing them in the near future, I’m sure the government will never reduce the rate of drug-related offences in Indonesia.”



The widespread idea of the death penalty “demonstrated a profound signal that the Indonesian government doesn’t have any roadmap enough to resolve the root cause of ‎the illicit drug trade in Indonesia”, the statement continued.

She said there was no transparency or evaluation of the Indonesian narcotics agency (BNN), which was established in 2002.



















































