Jakarta Globe – AFP, December 26, 2013
This file photo shows Australian Schapelle Corby talks to women prisoner (unseen) inside Kerobokan prison during a press visit, in Denpasar on March 11, 2008. (AFP Photo) |
Australian
drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has had her sentence in an Indonesian prison
cut by two months as part of an annual Christmas remission program, an official
said Thursday.
Ika
Yusanti, the justice ministry prisons spokeswoman, said she was receiving the
reduction for “good behavior.”
However the
official was tight-lipped about the 36-year-old’s prospects for parole amid
speculation she may be released from jail on the resort island of Bali in the
near future.
The
island’s corrections board in August recommended Corby for early release from
the notorious Kerobokan jail but the process has been bogged down by
bureaucratic wrangling.
Corby was
sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2005 for smuggling 4.1 kilos (nine pounds) of
marijuana into Bali the previous year.
But she has
received several remissions and a sentence cut of five years from the president
after she filed an appeal for clemency.
If granted
parole, Corby would still be bound to the island and obliged to report
regularly to authorities. She would live with her sister on Bali under the
terms of the parole agreement.
If she
continues to receive the usual sentence reductions during her parole period,
she could be free to return home to Australia by mid-2015.
Renae
Lawrence — part of a group of Australian drug traffickers known as the Bali
Nine jailed at Kerobokan — also had her sentence cut by two months. She was
originally jailed for 20 years.
Under the
Christmas program, the justice ministry granted 8,429 prisoners across the
country sentence cuts.
Sentences
are routinely cut in Indonesia to mark major religious celebrations and the
country’s independence day on August 17.
Agence France-Presse
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