Indonesia adjourned execution of three Bali bombers from before Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadhan to after the month in October, the country's attorney general office said on Tuesday.
The office said that the reason of the delay was because it was not appropriate to conduct the execution when the majority Muslims performing their holy obligation in the month.
Over 87 percent of Indonesia's population of about 230 million are Muslim.
Indonesian court has decided that the three men, Iman Samudra, Amrozi Ali Ghufron, are due to be executed before Ramadhan which is in September by shooting, but the three has appealed to the Islamic way of beheading.
The three men were convicted in 2003 and are being held at Nusa Kambangan prison in an island off the southern coast of Java Island.
The bombers remained not to regret over their remorseless acts in Bali blasts in 2002 that 202 innocent people in night clubs, mostly foreign tourists.
Source: Xinhua
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