File images of Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking. A senior Indonesian minister told AFP Saturday that France has sent Indonesia an official request to transfer Atlaoui, a 61-year-old welder who was arrested in 2005 in a drugs factory outside Jakarta where authorities accused him of being a "chemist". Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, including the death penalty for traffickers, and has executed foreigners in the past. In recent weeks, the government has agreed to transfer a series of high-profile foreign detainees on death row, including a Filipina mum and the last five members of the so-called 'Bali Nine' drug ring. FILE IMAGES of French death row inmate Serge Atlaoui