Indonesia's attorney-general says the applications for a judicial review filed by condemned Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will not prevent them being executed.
Lawyers for the two Australian drug smugglers have formally requested a second judicial review of their cases, to save them from execution, but it's uncertain whether the review will be allowed.
Tonight, Attorney-general Muhammad Prasetyo said an agreement between government departments and the courts meant their application for a review should be rejected.
"Based on applied norms, a judicial review cannot hinder execution," Attorney-General spokesman Tony Spontana said earlier.
As part of their application, the two men lodged handwritten letters to Indonesia's president.
In his statement to President Joko Widodo and the Supreme Court chairman, Chan writes that life in prison is tough but he is not complaining, "because I know I deserved to be jailed for quite a long time".
He begs for the president and court to note his rehabilitation during his decade on death row."I'm like a broken cup, but that doesn't mean I can't be repaired," he writes.
Sukumaran's letter begins by apologising for a crime committed when he was "very young and foolish and uneducated".
He writes about the computer and art classes in Kerobokan jail and how, through teaching others, they have taught him.
"In a way, Bapak, I would like to thank you even though I'm in prison," Sukumaran writes.
"If the lowest point of a society is prison, then it must be noted that your prison has changed me into an extraordinary person, a good man, an educated man."
The Bali Nine ringleaders, who have been in Kerobokan prison for 10 years, were unable to apply for the judicial review in person, so a court registrar visited them.
Lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis says following lodgement of the review the death sentences should be suspended.
"There should not be an execution because the legal process should be respected as well," he said.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has also vouched for the men's reform. He has promised to continue pressing their case with Indonesia, where President Joko has promised "no compromise" on executing drug offenders.
-With AAP
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