Indonesia has given Australia a draft proposal of how it wants the transfer of the remaining Bali Nine prisoners to work in the most tangible sign a deal will be done.
Indonesia has given the Australian government a draft proposal for how the remaining Bali Nine prisoners could be transferred home in the most tangible sign yet that it intends to call time on near-20 years the men have spent in Bali and Java jails.
“Of course, it depends on the negotiations, and I understand there are some legal matters in respect of the Australian government, and the Indonesian government too,” Yusril said. “This is purely good intentions, and discretion, taken by President Prabowo Subianto.” Australians Scott Rush, Matthew Norman, Michael Czugaj, Martin Stephens and Si Yi Chen are still serving life sentences after they were caught trying to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin out of Indonesia in 2005. They have spent their youths in Indonesian jails.
Seven of nine Australian drug smuggling suspects, from left to right, Scott Rush, Myuran Sukumaran, Tanduc Tan Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Andrew Chan, Si Yi Chan and Renae Lawrence sit at the prosecutors office in Denpasar, in August 2005.Efforts to get the Australians home after so long in a foreign jail had not meaningfully progressed until Prabowo assumed the presidency from Joko Widodo in October.
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