The sister of an Australian Navy doctor who lost his life responding to a disaster in Indonesia has reached out to President Joko Widodo to spare ten people on death row, including two Australians.
De'arne Davey has released the YouTube video as Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have been told they have as little as 72 hours left to live.
Ms Davey says she's pleading with the Indonesian president to spare the families of Chan, Sukumaran, and the other prisoners the daily grief she experiences.
Her only sibling, Lieutenant Matthew Davey, and eight other Australian Defence Force personnel, died in April 2005 while responding to the earthquake in Nias.
The team was on board a Sea King helicopter that crashed on landing in the devastated island, where they were to help critically injured Indonesians.
In her video, Ms Davey tells the president that Australia and Indonesia have already experienced a mutual loss due to terror attacks.
In the spirit of her brother's selflessness, she asks Mr Joko to have mercy, naming all of the ten prisoners expected to face the firing squad on Tuesday.
"I do not know Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran or any of the eight others on death row personally, but believe in humanity myself just like my amazing brother who died helping the people of your country," she wrote.
"I know these impending deaths would sadden him, if alive, because his job and passion was to save people.
"Matthew would have never questioned someone dying regarding their past history, ethics or beliefs before helping them, and either would I.
"I am not a doctor, in fact, I'm no one special at all.
"But as an honour to my brother, I am pleading with you to save these lives."
Dr Davey was awarded the Indonesian Medal of Honour posthumously, the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal and in previous service in East Timor, the United Nations Force Commander's Commendation.
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