Updated 9.04am: 8 drug smugglers in Indonesia, including Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, have been given formal notice of their executions.

They're due to go before a firing squad on Tuesday, as part of a group of 10 convicts.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called for a last-minute change of heart from Indonesian President Joko Widodo over the fate of two Australian's facing execution this week.

During a meeting on Nusakambangan Island yesterday, Sukumaran and Chan were given notice of Indonesia's intention to execute them in a minimum of 72 hours.

The Chan and Sukumaran families are making their way to Indonesia and it's understood they will be allowed to visit the men later today.

Some 200 people gathered in Paris to protest Indonesia's planned execution of foreign drug convicts have said they hope for a lasting reprieve for a Frenchman granted a temporary stay.

Indonesia earlier on Saturday said it had notified eight foreigners, including two Australians, they would be executed, but that France's Serge Atlaoui would not go before a firing squad with the group as he still has an outstanding appeal.

"I'm torn between immense relief ... and at the same time anguish at knowing the others may be executed on the 28th," Atlaoui's French lawyer Richard Sedillot said.

"He is still on death row, he hasn't yet been saved," he added.

The protesters shouted "Hope" and "Serge" as they waved pictures of the Frenchman, who has consistently denied wrongdoing.

Among the crowd were members of Amnesty International, rights groups and opponents of the death penalty as well as Indonesian-born French singer Anggun.

The news of Atlaoui's temporary reprieve came after France dramatically stepped up pressure on Jakarta to change course, with President Francois Hollande warning Saturday of "consequences with France and Europe" if he was put to death.

The sister of an Australian Navy doctor who lost his life responding to a disaster in Indonesia has reached out to President Joko Widodo to spare the lives of ten people.

De'arne Davey has released the YouTube video hoping the Indonesian president will prevent the daily grief she experiences from consuming the families of Australian pair

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and the other prisoners who have been told they have as little as 72 hours left to live.

Ms Davey's only sibling, Lieutenant Matthew Davey, died in 2005 when the helicopter he was on crash landed while responding to the earthquake in Nias, where he was sent to help critically injury Indonesians.