They were identified as Indonesian citizen Freddy Budiman, Nigerian nationals Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and Michael Titus Igweh, and Seck Osmane from Senegal, reports the Guardian.
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Deputy Attorney General Noor Rachmad said the four convicts were executed shortly after midnight local time.
In 2015 Indonesia executed 14 death-row convicts in a move that drew criticism from the United Nations and the EU.
The Community Legal Aid Institute, which advocates for the convicts, said “those facing execution are six Nigerians, four Indonesians, two Zimbabweans, one Indian and one Pakistani”.
The authorities stepped up preparations with ambulances carrying coffins seen crossing over to Nusakambangan island.
Veloso’s sister told CNN that family are allowed to visit in the days before the execution, but afterward, the only confirmation they get the sentence has been carried out is the sound of gunfire in the distance.
Indonesia has on Thursday night halted execution of Pakistani citizen at the eleventh hour, Zulfiqar Ali, ARY News reported.
Nigeria has protested plans by the Indonesian government to execute five Nigerians and others on drug-related offences.
In a late night tweet Maryam said: “Despite bleak chance of success, PM NS [Nawaz Sharif] decided to make one more attempt to have Zulfiqar’s execution suspended & Alhamdolillah it happened”.
However, President Joko Widodo has stood by the use of the death penalty to fight rising narcotics use. The comments suggest the authorities decided at the last minute that the legal grounds for execution in the other cases were not entirely satisfied.
These included Pakistani Zulfiqar Ali, whom rights groups say was beaten into confessing to the crime of heroin possession, leading to his 2005 death sentence.
Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arrmanatha Nasir, said the convicts had been given their rights according to the laws.
Had all 14 people been executed overnight, the former lawyer for the Australian men and anti-death penalty advocate Dr Todung Mulya Lubis said it would have been the largest mass execution in Indonesian history.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, nearly 152 people are on a death row in Indonesia.
Amnesty International asked that the executions should not go ahead, saying the families were only informed of the decision Thursday morning – contrary to Indonesian law and international standards.
On Wednesday, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Indonesia to put an end to the “unjust” use of the death penalty while the European Union pleaded Jakarta to discontinue the “cruel and inhumane punishment, which fails to act as a deterrent”.
The government of Jokowi’s predecessor did not carry out executions between 2009 and 2012, but resumed them in 2013.
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The drug convict believes his execution will be put on hold if both countries put all differences aside and take up the matter on embassy level.
