Michael flew to Bali and spent more than three hours in Kerobokan jail on Sunday with his brother Andrew, who is on death row. It was the first time that Andrew has seen his family since learning that his presidential clemency plea had been rejected last week.

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Meanwhile, in six churches across Bali on Sunday parishioners were urged to join a Mercy Campaign plea to save the lives of Andrew Chan and fellow Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran, sporting stickers which said #keephopealive. The parishioners were urged to sign a petition to save the lives of Chan and Sukumaran.

Bali campaign organiser, Matius Arif, said Chan and Sukumaran were reformed and rehabilitated during their decade in jail and deserved a second chance.

“The campaign is aimed to raise people’s awareness about this matter. Many people are yet to know about what Andrew and Myuran have been doing in prison. We hope that people are more aware that Andrew and Myuran deserve to life longer and deserve to get forgiveness,” Mr

Arif said on Sunday.

He said the young Australians were a leading example of a deterrent who had campaigned from jail about the dangers of drugs. “Indeed, many prisoners were not successful in learning deterrence in prison. But they are. So, do not kill them. They should give testimony about their life to make people aware about the danger of narcotics,” Mr Arif said.

“Death row issue is not only an Australian issue. It’s definitely an Indonesian issue. And how we respond on this is very important,” he said.

Michael Chan travelled to Bali on the weekend to spend time with his brother and has vowed to fight to keep him alive.

On Sunday the campaign was joined by a cast of Australian celebrities including actors, public figures broadcasters.

Among those lending their support are Australian actors Asher Keddie, Claudia Karvan, Justine Clarke, Bryan Brown, David Wenham and Richard Roxbugh, musicians Missy Higgins and Megan Washington, and political commentators Alan Jones and Germaine Greer.

The only words spoken in the video are “I Stand for Mercy” by the various identities.

A range of quotes from fellow inmates at Kerobokan Prison are included, highlighting how the two men have made the most of their lives and assisted others behind bars.

“Indonesia you have succeeded in your purpose,” says the text.

“You have rehabilitated these men. Keep hope alive. Let them live.”

Viewers are then directed to sign the online petition. The comments section on the video has been disabled.

Before leaving for Bali Mr Chan told how the Chans were no different to any other ordinary Australian family — two brothers, two sisters — as children they played soccer together, rode bikes together. As a teenager however Andrew did something very stupid — he, with nine others, tried to import 8kg of heroin from Bali to Sydney and got caught.

But Mr Chan says his brother has changed dramatically since the day he was arrested, back in April 2005.

“Two totally different people. He is in there (jail) studying to be a pastor, running first aid courses in there, cooking classes. If being in prison is to reform yourself I think both the boys have done that and what’s asked of them. I don’t expect him to come home tomorrow, they both have done a crime and they both should pay for it but not with their lives,” Mr Chan said.

He said the past 48 hours had been the hardest for the family and particularly their mother, who hasn’t been able to sleep.

“How do you tell your own mother not to worry about something like this. It just doesn’t cut it. You’d like to say that it is going to be okay ... but in the back of your mind you know that the possibility is greater and greater every day ... when do those 72 hours take effect, is it another seven days down the track, is it 10 days, is it two days, you don’t know and the whole thing of not knowing is probably the hardest bit of all.”

Both Chan and Sukumaran have now lost their presidential clemency pleas and authorities say they will be shot dead, together, by firing squad. But no date for that has yet been set.

It comes after the new President, Joko Widodo, ordered that all drug traffickers who have exhausted all legal avenues, be killed. There would be no clemency and no second chances, he said, adding it’s shock therapy for drug dealers.

One week ago six drug traffickers, including five foreigners, were executed.

The urgency of the situation has brought their families to Bali to comfort and be with them.

“We need to save the boys. They deserve a second chance. They have reformed. I know that there are a lot of people on board that don’t believe that they should be taken away and shot and then there is still going to be an element of people that do. But I just ask those people to maybe put the shoe on the other foot and think that they were young kids, stupid kids that made a stupid mistake that have showed over the last 10 years they have changed and reformed

themselves,” Michael Chan says.

Myuran Sukumaran’s mother Raji, brother Chinthu and sister Brintha have also travelled to Bali and will on Monday visit him in jail for the first time since he was denied clemency.

“No mother should have to go through this,” a tearful Mrs Sukumaran said of the nightmare she is now living.

‘He is breaking into pieces and there is nothing I can do to help him and something has to be done and they should not be executed. Please help, please do something, no one should be in this position. No mother should have to go through this. It is killing us,” Mrs Sukumaran

pleaded on the weekend.

Little sister Brintha says that sometimes it feels like the whole nightmare is happening to someone else, not her own close-knit family.

“I want my brother to come home one day. I don’t want him to die. I love him so much and I have already missed 10 years of growing up with him,” she says.