Australia pushes for delay in executions

Australia has called on Indonesia to delay executing two convicted Australian drug traffickers until corruption claims are investigated. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she spoke to her Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi late on Sunday and that there was still an appeal before Indonesia's Constitutional Court and a separate investigation at the country's Judicial Commission.

The drug traffickers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were convicted in 2006, along with six other foreigners and one Indonesian man, have been formally informed of their execution.

Under Indonesian law, convicts must be given 72 hours' notice of execution, which means the executions by firing squad could be carried out as early as Tuesday.

A French convict, Serge Atlaoui, still has an appeal before the court and France has warned of "consequences" if the execution goes ahead.

Bishop said the two Australians should not be executed while legal issues remained.

Talking to Australia’s ABC news, Bishop said that Chan and Sukumaran's lawyers were pursuing action before the Constitutional Court in Indonesia.

"And there's also a separate investigation under way by the Indonesian Judicial Commission into claims of corruption into the original trial and both of these processes raise questions about the integrity of the sentencing and the clemency process."

Bishop added that she was "profoundly dismayed" by the 72-hour execution notice.

The claims that the Indonesian judges in the trial had asked for bribes for lighter sentences first surfaced earlier this year but one of the judges involved in the case denied there had been political interference or negotiations about bribes.