An appeal for a Jakarta court to hear the case for sparing Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from execution has been delayed for a week.
Lawyers went to the State Administrative Court on Thursday ready to make the case for the rehabilitated Bali Nine pair, who are now in quarantine cells not far from where Indonesia would send them to the firing squad.
But the case was adjourned until next Thursday because lawyers for the president were not ready.
A lawyer for Indonesia's Attorney-General's Office told reporters the required letter of attorney hadn't been signed.
The same court two weeks ago dismissed their argument that President Joko Widodo failed to assess their rehabilitation or give reasons for rejecting the Australians' clemency appeal.
At that time, the court threw out the case on the grounds it didn't have the authority to hear a case against a presidential decree.
Jakarta had planned to execute 10 drug offenders - including Chan and Sukumaran - simultaneously, and had wanted them to spend as little time as possible on the island of Nusakambangan beforehand.
But it has since indicated it's waiting for the legal appeals of some of the 10 prisoners to be exhausted.
Attorney-General spokesman Tony Spontana on Thursday told Indonesia's Metro TV he was committed to carrying through a new round of executions but added: "certainly we will respect the current trials while we're preparing everything".
He said a statement from the Supreme Court would stop "a pattern" where prisoners were submitting new appeals after presidential clemency had been rejected.
"We needed to find an alternative the Attorney-General's office could take in answer to this latest development of trials," he said.
Chan and Sukumaran have had two family visits since being moved to Nusakambangan island from Bali last Wednesday.
They're in cells where they can speak to each other but can't see each other and are only allowed out for a limited number of hours a day.
The pair's next family visit will not be until Monday.
Their Sydney families remain in the nearest port of Cilacap, still with no idea when the executions might happen.
Jakarta must give a minimum 72-hours notice of the executions.
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