CANBERRA, Australia (AP) " Australia continued to make high-level appeals to Indonesia to spare the lives of two Australian drug traffickers on death row despite the Indonesian president rejecting their requests for clemency, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Prime Minister Tony Abbott was also appealing to Indonesian President Joko Widodo to save Australians Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31.
"We are doing all we can. We're making representations, privately and publicly, to stay the executions," Bishop told Nine Network television on Tuesday.
"And we will not give up. We continue to do that on a daily basis," she added.
Bishop said she had spoken on Monday night to the pair's devastated families who were in Indonesia pleading for their lives. The prisoners are being held in Kerobokan Penitentiary on the tourist island of Bali.