IN PHOTO: Australian Andrew Chan (L) and Myuran Sukumaran wait in a temporary cell for their appeal hearing in Denpasar District Court in Indonesia's resort island of Bali September 21, 2010.
IN PHOTO: Australian Andrew Chan (L) and Myuran Sukumaran wait in a temporary cell for their appeal hearing in Denpasar District Court in Indonesia's resort island of Bali September 21, 2010. They are members of a group known as the Bali Nine, arrested in April 2005 in Bali with 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin strapped to their bodies. Chan and Sukumaran were sentenced to death in 2006. They requested for a judicial review for their death sentence to be reduced to 20 years jail. REUTERS/Murdani Usman

Bali Nine drug convicts Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have not been listed in the next round of executions. According to a spokesman for the Indonesian attorney-general, the Australians’ fate is still undecided.

Earlier reports claimed Muhammad Prasetyo had told a parliamentary committee that the Australians were among the next group of offenders to be executed. However, Tony Spontana said that Prasetyo had only discussed about the location of the next round of executions.

ABC News has learned that the Australians’ names are not yet included in the list of people to be executed next. According to Azis Syamsuddin, the head of the Parliamentary Commission on Law and Human Rights; the attorney-general has not mentioned the nationalities of the next group of people facing the firing squad.

While there have been several campaigns against the execution of the Bali Nine drug convicts from Australia, Garry Linnell from The Age has said that Chan and Sukumaran are not the perfect “poster boys” for a protest against capital punishment. He says that there are other people awaiting the firing squad and some of them are innocent as well.

Linnell says that the Australian drug offenders were aware of the punishment of the criminal offence they were committing. While capital punishment can be challenged in a civilised society, he believes that the Bali Nine controversy is also about “sovereign rights and the penalties imposed on those who decide to flout them.”

Linnell also says that the drug offenders could have earned millions of dollars if they managed to bring the eight kilograms of heroin to Australia. He adds that labelling Chan and Sukumaran as victims is a “mistake.”

Indonesia started executing drug offenders again earlier in January. While protests against the execution of Chan and Sukumaran found its voice, Indonesia President Joko Widodo emphatically denied clemency to them. Indonesia has extremely strict laws against such offences. There are numerous signs around the South Asian country to remind people about its stern take against drug smuggling.

While Widodo has earlier said that he would not be lenient against those who commit drug related crimes, experts believe that he may overturn the death sentence against the Australians to maintain diplomatic relations with Australia.