20 foreigners to get sentences cut

20 foreigners to get sentences cut

JAKARTA: Twenty foreign prisoners on the Indonesian resort island of Bali will have their sentences cut by one to five months to mark country's independence day, a report said Wednesday.

"They will receive sentence cuts of between one and five months that will be awarded by the governor of Bali," the head of the Bali justice office Sriyanto was quoted by the Antara news agency as saying.

Sriyanto said 19 of the inmates were currently serving time at Denpasar state jail, while one other was in Gianyar prison.

He gave no names, but foreigners jailed in Bali are usually serving time for drug offences.

Sriyanto said that two foreigners serving life sentence for trafficking in large amount of narcotics were not given sentence cuts.

Another 411 Indonesian inmates will also receive similar sentence cuts for this year's independence day. --AFP