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| Tony Abbott (L) and Joko Widodo (R) |
Indonesian parliamentarians are publicly questioning the fact that 10 prisoners on death row, including Bali nine organisers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, have not yet been killed.
The delay to the executions is being linked to everything from phone-tapping rumours to Prime Minister Tony Abbott's lack of popularity in Australia.
The Indonesian government initially said the prisoners would be killed in February.
However, it now says their executions are on hold pending the outcomes of several legal challenges by those on death row.
Elnino Husein Mohi, a parliamentarian from the same party as defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, said the government would lose the trust of the people if the executions continued to be delayed.
He said it was legitimate for people to ask the president and vice-president whether the executions would be delayed until Mr Abbott's domestic popularity improved.
"Hopefully, the delay is truly due to technical reasons," Mr Mohi was quoted saying in news website Tribunnews.com.
However, he pointed out there had been no delays to the execution of six drug felons in January, five of whom were foreigners.
There were also rumours swirling that the delays relate to Mr Joko's phone being tapped.
Indonesia is still smarting over the 2013 revelations that Australia attempted to monitor the mobile phone calls of former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and senior officials.
And, earlier in March, it was revealed Australian and New Zealand spies targeted Indonesia's largest mobile phone network, Telkomsel.
On March 9, Deputy House Speaker Fadli Zon said friendly countries did not wire-tap.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Jewel Topsfield, March 16, 2015
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