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Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are being transferred from Kerobokan prison to Nusakambangan island, where they are to be executed by firing squad.
Attorney-General H. M. Prasetyo is expected to announce Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be killed as early as this weekend.
It is believed a news conference will be held on Friday to announce the timing of the executions. This could mean they would be held as early as Sunday night.
We will be wrapping up the live blog here, but keep following the latest developments at smh.com.au.
Spiritual counsellors for the 10 drug felons now facing the firing squad - including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - have a delicate task of balancing hope with reality.
Jewel Topsfield spoke with Muslim cleric Hasan Makarim, who said his role is "to prepare the convicts to be ready to face what they have to face."
"God gives the strength to these people not me. I am just the mediator," he said.
The Sydney Morning Herald's editorial says Indonesian President Joko Widodo has power, but no moral right to kill Bali Nine pair.
What right in all good conscience does a father of three children, brother of three younger sisters and uncle and grandfather of generations to come have to deny two men their lives?
For if the proud family man and Indonesian President Joko Widodo proceeds with these executions, it surely suggests there is no human spirit to bind us; no understanding of what signal state-sanctioned murder sends to the younger generation and their children in years hence; no recognition that people deserve a chance to atone for their wrongs.
Mr Joko might have the power in his hands but he has no right as a human being in all good conscience to kill Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on the prison island of Nusakambangan.
Should the president proceed regardless, a great opportunity - to reject the eye for an eye brutality that demeans us all as humans - will vanish in the time it takes to pull an executioner's trigger.
Read the full editorial here
The Foreign Minister then asked for a moment of "indulgence" for the Deputy Opposition Leader and foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek, to lend her support to the efforts.
"There is a very strong bipartisan sense in this parliament that the death penalty is wrong in this case, it is always wrong to whomever it is applied wherever it is applied," Ms Plibersek said.
"All Australians' thoughts are with Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. Their friends, their families, their supporters. We are united in opposing the death penalty in this case as we are in every case and we would plead with the Indonesian Government and the people of Indonesia to understand that just as they plead for the lives of their citizens around the world we plead now for the lives of two young men who have made enormous transformations in their lives and who are making enormous transformations in the lives of other people as well."
Ms Plibersek went on to say that "while there is life there is hope. But the legal processes that the lawyers for these young men are engaged in, two legal processes, must be allowed to be completed."
During Question Time in federal parliament today, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was asked to update the house on the latest diplomatic efforts relating to the two men.
She confirmed she continues to lobby the Indonesian government, arguing there are grounds for clemency in this case.
"I don't for a moment understate the seriousness of what they did. But over the past 10 years both men have shown remorse and anyway have undergone a remarkable indeed extraordinary rehabilitation ... Successive prison governors in Bali have attested to their good character and their process of rehabilitation.
"As I said as recently as last night to Foreign Minister Masudi, the Indonesian Government can be proud of what they have achieved in their prison system, this level of rehabilitation is what prison systems around the world aspire to achieve.
"We will continue to appeal to President Widodo's strength in his humanity to show mercy and forgiveness for these two Australian men who have undergone this remarkable rehabilitation. I spoke to the families of both men this morning. I have met with them and spoken with them before. As you can imagine they are devastated. But they are just living day by day. And, Madam Speaker, on behalf of the Parliament, I respectfully ask of the Indonesian President that he spare the lives of these two Australian citizens."
And a short time later, Andrew Chan was similarly escorted from the flight.