Indon to resume executions of traffickers

Indonesia will resume executing traffickers as it steps up its "war on drugs", with the country's attorney-general saying foreigners were on the list.

A volunteer prays for Australian death row prisoners Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, at a prison in Bali, Indonesia, late Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Source: AAP

Indonesia says it will resume executions of drug traffickers this year, after a brief hiatus since last year's controversial executions of mostly foreign convicts.

Attorney-General HM Prasetyo told reporters "more than one" person would be executed for drug offences this year and foreigners were also on the list.

"We will not stop. We will step up the war on drugs," Prasetyo said on Thursday.

He declined to name the nationalities of the convicts on death row.

Indonesia executed 14 convicts, including Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan and nationals from Brazil, the Netherlands and Nigeria, by firing squad last year despite repeated pleas for mercy from their governments and international organisations and activists.

Amid international outrage, Indonesia postponed other scheduled executions. Officials said it was so the government could focus on reviving a flagging economy.