A Japanese man who is on trial in Indonesia for drug trafficking and faces the death penalty if convicted said Tuesday he plans to donate his organs to needy Indonesians if he is executed, as his earlier plan to donate them to a Japanese university may no longer materialize.

Masaru Kawada, 73, from Aichi Prefecture, was arrested at Minangkabau International Airport in the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang on Nov. 22 after customs officials found 2.35 kg of methamphetamine in his luggage.

On Tuesday, Kawada told the court in Pariaman, about 50 km from Padang, that he did not know he was carrying methamphetamine when he was arrested at the airport.