The five remaining members of the Bali Nine could be back in Australia in time for Christmas.
The five remaining members of the Bali Nine could be transferred to Australia as soon as next month after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese directly lobbied new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
The two leaders met earlier this month on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Peru, where Albanese raised the cases of the five men, Matthew Norman, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Si Yi Chen, who are in prisons on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java. Australians Matthew Norman, right, Si Yi Chen, centre and Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen in court during their trial in Denpasar, Bali in October 2005.It was not the first time Albanese had raised with Prabowo the fate of the five men, who are serving life sentences after being arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
An Australian government source confirmed the five men would return to Australia but declined to comment further.
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