Here is a very insightful report on what was happening diplomatically behind the scenes with Australia and Indonesia in the lead up to the executions and what the fallout looks like for the relationship between the two countries, from my colleagues Lenore Taylor and Gabrielle Chan. In it, they write:

The unsuccessful political and diplomatic effort to appeal to new Indonesian president Joko Widodo has been intense, increasingly desperate, often "creative" but always couched in careful language of respect for Indonesia's sovereignty as hope remained that the president might grant clemency.