Five Drug Convict Executed in Central Java

Cilacap, Central Jav (Antara) - Five drug convicts were executed on the island of Nusakambangang, off southern Central Java, earlier on Sunday at 00.40 local time, Cilacap police chief Adj. Sr.Comr. Ulung Sampurna Jaya said. He said four of five bodies of the drug convicts were sent out of the notorious island at around 3.55 am local time on Sunday. The four bodies were those of Dutch Ang Kim Soei (62), Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Mareira (53), Malawian Daniel Enemua (38), and Indonesian woman Rani Andriani alias Melisa Aprilia (38). Four ambulances rolled out of the ship of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the Pengayoman IV, that carried the cars with the bodies from the island upon arrival at the quay of Wijayapura in Cilacap. The cars immediately left the quay with police guards. The bodies of Ang Kim Soei and Marco Archer Cardoso Mareira were to be cremated in Kalibagor, regency of Banyumas, Central Java and that of Namaona Denis was brought to Jakarta. The ambulance that carried the body of Melisa Aprilia proceeded to Ciranjang, Cianjur, West Java, where she asked to be buried near the grave of her mother. The ashes of the body of Ang Kim Soei was to be sent to Malaysia and those of Marco Acher Cardoso Mareira is to be sent to Brazil. The body of another convict executed in the island was Namaona Denis (38) from Malawi, and was buried on the island Cilacap , Ulung Sampurna Jaya said. Meanwhile another drug convict, Tran Thi Bich Hanh (37), a Vietnamese, was executed in Boyolali,Central Java, almost at the same time. Central Java police chief Insp.Gen. Nur Ali said after the execution the body had been sent to Semarang for cremation.(*)