Jakarta -
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has rejected a request for clemency for an Australian man sentenced to death for drug smuggling, local media reported on Friday.
The decision paves the way for Andrew Chan's execution by firing squad along with compatriot Myuran Sukumaran, whose request for presidential mercy was denied earlier.
Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 34, are the only members of the so-called Bali Nine drug smuggling ring on death row for trying to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from the Indonesian resort island of Bali to Australia in 2005.
The remaining Bali Nine members were sentenced to life or 20 years in prison.
“The clemency request on behalf of drug convict Andrew Chan has been rejected,” the spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, Tonny Spontana, was quoted as saying by the online edition of the broadcaster Metro TV.
Spontana said an execution date for Chan and Sukumaran had not been decided.
Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said earlier this month that the two would be executed together once Chan's request for mercy has been rejected, despite appeals by the Australian government to spare them.
Indonesia on Sunday executed six convicted traffickers - one each from Malawi, Brazil, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Executions in Indonesia are carried out by a firing squad.
The Netherlands and Brazil recalled ambassadors from Jakarta to protest the executions of their citizens.
Indonesia has defended the death penalty for drug traffickers, saying the country's drug problem has reached an emergency level.
The government said drug abuse killed an average 40 people in Indonesia each day, and that the estimated number of drug addicts is expected to reach 5.8 million people this year.
Sunday's executions were the first since 2013 and the first since Joko took office in October 2014.
There are about 60 other convicted drug traffickers on death row in Indonesian prisons, including two Australian men and a British woman. - Sapa-dpa