The execution of Andrew Chan and Myruan Sukumaran was the act of desperate men clinging to power, the pair's Australian lawyer says.
Peter Morrissey says the pair's death is a powerful statement about how the Indonesian government sees the law.
"An executive government like this, with desperate men whose political careers are failing through weakness, who are prepared to trash the legal system as they have and right over the top of it and treat it with contempt, then they're making a powerful statement how the current government sees the law," Mr Morrissey told the ABC on Wednesday.
"It's a triumph of power over rationality and over the slow processes of the law."
Australian National University Indonesia expert Greg Fealy flagged Australia's diplomatic response could involve potentially withdrawing some aid.
"That may well go down not very well at all in Indonesia," he told ABC TV, adding it is likely the move could escalate diplomatic tensions.
Mr Morrissey said he didn't want to see aid cut to Indonesia as a result of the executions.
"We don't want revenge," he told the Nine Network.
"We are not looking to see punitive measures ... we don't want to see the workers or poor people in Indonesia suffer because Australia has to make a gesture.
"We are not looking to see cuts in aid or that sort of thing. That is not what Myuran and Andrew were about."
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