Indonesia has responded to Australian efforts to spare two Bali Nine members from execution by reiterating its president's stance on drug crimes.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir says Indonesia has received correspondence from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop appealing for the cases of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan to be re-considered, and noting their rehabilitation.
Both men are on a list of 20 death row convicts to be executed this year, after President Joko Widodo determined to reject clemency for drug offenders.
"We basically understand what was conveyed by the Australian foreign minister and informed them of our concern, about the issue of drug trafficking," Mr Nasir told reporters in Jakarta on Thursday.
"We informed them this is a serious concern of our president at this stage and a decision was made by the president in line with the national laws.
"All the procedural rights of the convicted persons have been given.
"We also hope that this issue, as has been stated by your prime minister as well, should not in any way affect bilateral relations, the strong and very good bilateral relations that we have with Australia."
When Sukumaran's clemency application was rejected this month, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australia would make "the strongest possible representations" without hurting ties with Indonesia.
Chan is yet to receive notice his clemency appeal has been rejected, but is on the list for execution, which assumes drug offenders will be denied mercy.
Since being sentenced to death for the 2005 heroin trafficking plot, Chan and Sukumaran have used their days to help the rehabilitation of fellow prisoners at Bali's Kerobokan jail through an art studio and pastoral care.
Even as it plans 26 executions on home soil this year, Indonesia is lobbying to save its citizens from the death penalty overseas.
The high-profile case of Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad, a maid jailed in Saudi Arabia in 2009 for killing her employer's wife and stealing, could be nearing an end.
Indonesia last year paid $US1.9 million in blood money to stop her beheading.
According to reports in Saudi Arabia, her employer's family has accepted the payment and finally agreed to drop the case.
Brazil's government is also asking Indonesia if there is any way to save one of its citizens slated for execution this year.
Marco Archer was imprisoned in 2003 for attempting to enter Indonesia with cocaine.
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