a total of 52 inmates of prisons on Nusakambangan island, off the Cilacap coast in Indonesia

a total of 52 inmates of prisons on Nusakambangan island, off the Cilacap coast in Indonesia, are death row convicts. Bambang Winahyu, head of prison affairs at the Central Java law and human rights office, said "there is a death-row convict who has spent such a long time in prison that he is now 67 years old." Bahar bin Matar who was jailed in 1971 for murder. He said he did know why Bahar`s death sentence had not been carried out for 37 years. Winahyu said convicts who behaved badly, tried to escape, bribed guards or were uncooperative were put to death more quickly. Winahyu said a group of House of Representatives (DPR) members visited Nusakambangan in 2007 and after learning about Bahar`s fate planned to do something to have his death sentence commuted. However, no follow-up on the parliament members` intention was heard of ever since because there was as yet no law allowing death-row convicts who had waited for more than 20 years and a good record of conduct to have his or her sentence commuted. "The possibility of commuting a death sentence to life is mentioned in a bill to amend the Criminal Law but the bill has yet to be deliberated by the House," he said. Among other prisoners sentenced to death who had waited more than a decade was Swabuana alias Adi Kumis alias Dodi bin Sukarno who had been in jail since July 5, 1991 and whose death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court in August, 1992. Another one was Malaysian national Thum Tuck Al Atjay, a drug effender, who was detained in May 1994 and whose death sentence was endorsed by the Supreme Court in September 1995.