Asked whether the next executions would take place this month, Mr Prasetyo said the date and time was still under consideration. Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran have filed an application for a second judicial review of their case to save the men from the firing squad, arguing the two Australians have been rehabilitated while in prison for almost 10 years. However, under a ruling by the Constitutional Court, another judicial review is only permissible if new evidence becomes available. Mr Prasetyo said he had heard that no new evidence had been submitted by Chan and Sukumaran's lawyers. "We do not interfere with the courts, but the information I heard was that the new evidence they filed was not new evidence," he told reporters on Monday. He said the judicial review focused on the rehabilitation of the prisoners. "New evidence is . . . something we didn't know when the trial took place that would have altered the sentence," he added.

Mr Prasetyo said Chan and Sukumaran's clemency pleas had been rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo: "They have filed for clemency and it has been rejected. That is our reference." The Indonesian lawyer for Chan and Sukumaran, Todung Mulya Lubis, said the Attorney-General should wait for the legal proceedings before the court to take place. "With all respect to the Attorney-General, he has to take that into consideration. He can't ignore the legal proceeding," Mr Mulya said. He said Mr Prasetyo should also understand that judicial reviews were not just about submitting new evidence. Mr Mulya, a well-known human rights advocate in Indonesia, said he hadn't been in touch with Chan and Sukumaran since news broke that they would be included in the second round of executions.

The Attorney-General said the arrest of Nigerian man Silvester Obiekwe on January 25 for running a drug syndicate from jail was "a shocking thing" and showed that "Indonesia is clearly in a state of emergency with drugs". "It made us realise that court sentences related to drug dealers and kingpins - when final and legally binding - must be executed." Mr Prasetyo vowed to carry out the second round of executions but said several things had to be considered, including the weather, which caused slight delays in some of the executions on January 18. Mr Prasetyo said he had instructed all prosecutors handling drug cases to seek the maximum sentence. He understood Australia would protest against the death penalty for Chan and Sukumaran and said Indonesia also advocated for its citizens on death row overseas. However many Indonesians abroad were facing the death penalty for acting in self-defence, whereas many foreigners on death row in Indonesia had committed drug crimes. "We have stated that we will fight drugs. Drug offences are a crime against humanity," he said.

Anang Iskandar, the head of BNN, the National Drugs Agency, said capital punishment was required as a deterrent to drug smuggling. In order to be effective, executions needed to be imposed "again and again", he said, noting that prior to the execution of six drug felons on January 18, there had been no executions since 2013. "If there are long periods between the executions it won't have the deterrent effect," he said. Mr Anang said the National Drug Agency's target was to uncover 40 to 50 drug networks this year. with Karuni Rompies