Twenty-three-year-old Thai national Nothanam M

Twenty-three-year-old Thai national Nothanam M. Saichon never expected to find herself counting off her final days on death row in a prison in Indonesia. After being sentenced to death for attempting to smuggle one kilogram of heroin into Indonesia through Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in August 2001, Saichon was now making the best of her time behind bars at the Tangerang Penitentiary for Women. "I am awaiting the results of my case review at the Supreme Court. If it is not good news, then I will ask for a presidential pardon. If the President rejects my clemency request ... I will leave it all to God," she told The Jakarta Post. Saichon was one of three Thai women awaiting a final say on their death penalties. All three women were also alone, receiving no visits from family or friends since being jailed. "We have only received visits from Thai Embassy staff members, but they don't come any more," she said. Saichon, Bunyong Khaosa Ard and Parkhan were not as lucky as the four Indonesian women on death row for the same crime who could least take some comfort from their family. Saichon was working as a masseuse in Bangkok, which allowed her to make enough money to pay the hospital bills of her sick father. After three months at a massage parlour, one of her co-workers offered Saichon US $500 to fly to Jakarta and deliver something. Before leaving Bangkok, her co-worker took her to a hotel and asked her to wear special underwear, Saichon recalled. "When I arrived at the airport (in Jakarta), the customs and excise officers found drugs hidden in the panties I was wearing," she said.