Preparations ... a funeral parlour worker in Jakarta, sizes up the boxes that will be used to transport Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan's bodies home. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

Some extended members of the Sukumaran family were due to fly out of Jakarta bound for Sydney on Thursday night, while the immediate relatives are now set to begin the sad journey home late on Friday night.

1AM — Indonesia’s ambassador in Canberra extends sympathies

Indonesia’s ambassador in Canberra, Nadjib Riphat Kesoema, has extended the country’s sympathies to Chan and Sukumaran’s loved ones.

He said Indonesia understands the views expressed by the people and government of Australia on the “law enforcement measures” taken against the two Bali Nine ring leaders.

Ambassador Kesoema, who returned to Australia on Thursday, added it was a difficult and challenging period for Australia-Indonesia relations.

“We remain strongly committed to improve and strengthen our overall bilateral relations,” he said. “We trust that currently personal, cultural, business and academic links between the peoples of Australia and Indonesia remain strong.”

Tragic ... funeral parlour workers in Jakarta size up the boxes that will be used to transport Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan's bodies home. Source: Supplied

Meanwhile, as the Sukumaran and Chan families prepare to bring them home on their final journey, accounts are emerging of the their courage and dignity during their final moments alive.

“Myu went with courage and honour, all class,” his brother Chinthu said.

Strapped to the wooden crosses, spaced 4m apart under a makeshift shelter, Andrew Chan did a roll call of the seven dying beside him.

The ninth, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, was not among them. Her cross was vacant, spared only moments before the condemned group was taken from their isolation cells — and around 30 minutes from the moment gunfire reverberated the prison island.

Chan had earlier rallied them as prosecutors came to their cells to collect them for death.

Mentally ill Brazillian Rodrigo Gularte was so unwell that he didn’t even know he was being executed.

Last journey ... two wooden crosses marked with the Bali Nine duo’s names stand inside a Jakarta funeral parlour. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

Chinthu Sukumaran said he heard some amazing stories about his brother’s bravery right to the last minute.

The men’s lawyer Julian McMahon, on Thursday said that he had heard from chaplains who had been with the men until the last three minutes that both Chan, 31, and Sukumaran, 34, had conducted themselves in an extraordinary manner.

“What the chaplains have said publicly is that the prisoners, clearly with the leadership of Andrew and Myuran, conducted themselves in a wonderful way and there was quite a lot of singing, Amazing Grace especially but other hymns, some prayers,” Mr McMahon said.

“Andrew did a roll call of everyone to check that everyone was okay,” he said.

Dignity ... the Bali Nine ringleaders were brave to the last minute. Source: Supplied

Mr McMahon said that despite only being at Besi prison for two months Chan and Sukumaran had forged strong and trusting relationships with the guards and other prisoners.

“They wanted to support the people around them and to make it clear that executing prisoners is a fundamentally wrong thing to do at any level and they would be pleased that there was so much publicity surrounding their deaths because they want their death to have some

purpose,” Mr McMahon said.

“They want people ... to care enough about what has happened to do something about the death penalty.”

During the last few hours of visiting time on the day of their deaths he witnessed prisoners come up and through the fence form a circle with their arms and pray.

He said during the families last visit with the men, for five hours on the day of their deaths, Chan and Sukumaran had been composed.

Last time ... Andrew Chan's brother Michael and Myuran Sukumaran's brother Chintu will head home tonight. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: News Corp Australia

“I know there was a lot of happiness there among great sadness,” Mr McMahon said.

“They were beautiful, wonderful composed people. The manner in which they dealt with their families ... it was a privilege to observe.

“The idea of killing these people as they sat their radiating warmth and love ... to me it exposes the complete and absolute futility of state-sponsored killings. It is a complete waste.”

Mr McMahon was in a marquee, on Nusakambangan Island, with Australia’s Consul to Bali, Majell Hind, when the executions took place nearby.

“We could obviously hear the shots very clearly because eight people got executed by eight firing squads. So it was very loud and clear.

“Some of the people who were shot had family members there where we were. The families of Sukumaran and Chan chose not to be there and I am glad they did that. There was no upside really,” Mr McMahon said.

No more death penalty ... supporters say the duo wanted their executions to mean something. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

In their final days, both men were reading Gallipoli, with Chan also reading Monash the Outsider. Sukumaran was painting furiously, documenting his final days on earth.

One of his final works was signed on the back by all those who died with him — including the spared Mary Jane — who had dipped their fingerprints in red paint to symbolise blood. And despite only being at the jail for a short time, Chan was already heavily involved in the jail’s church where he and his girlfriend Febyanti Herewila were married on his second last day alive.

Mr McMahon was the small private wedding ceremony. “It was a lovely, gentle quiet affair.”

Mr McMahon said that both Chan and Sukumaran did their absolute best in the last years of their life to make things better for other people.

Sukumaran had even convinced guards, in the week before he learned he was to be executed, to let him set up art classes for eight fellow prisoners. His mother Raji has brought him the art supplies.

It was around the time he celebrated his 34th birthday — a picture taken of him with his cake was to be his last.

Mr McMahon said both had become wonderful young men.

“They took great pride in the fact that important Australians and ordinary Australians who have no public profile supported them, because it validated for them the very hard work that they went through to lead good lives in the prison.”

Living a good life in prison is not easy, but Chan and Sukumaran did it.