Hope grows for remaining Bali Nine prisoners in Indonesia to return to Australia to serve their sentences.
The mooted homecoming of members of the Bali Nine drug syndicate still serving time in Indonesian jails would be a major coup for the Albanese government, which has already secured the release of
Australians Matthew Norman , Si Yi Chen and Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen in court during their trial in Denpasar, Bali in October 2005.Matthew Norman, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Si Yi Chen are serving life sentences in prisons on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java after being arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
From the distance of nearly 20 years, it is difficult to recall the mixed emotions and responses to their arrest and sentencing. The East Timor crisis of 1999 had strained Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, but the war on terrorism and the 2002 Bali bombings had brought our countries closer. The relationship between the two nations lurched as images of the nine young Australians in a Denpasar jail, along with boogie board bag cannabis smuggler Schapelle Corby, were shown by media back home. They all faced possible lengthy prison sentences or even death in Bali, and when Chan and Sukumaran were executed, then-prime minister Tony Abbott withdrew Australia’s ambassador to Indonesia.
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