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JAKARTA — Indonesia plans to return prisoners from Australia, France and the Philippines by the end of the year, a minister said Thursday.High-profile detainees include a Philippine woman saved from execution and the remaining members of Australia's "Bali Nine," all convicted on drugs charges."Our target is hopefully at the end of December, the transfers of these prisoners will have been completed," said senior minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra.
Talks are also ongoing with Canberra over the transfer of five Australians arrested in 2005 as part of a drug ring.Two of the "Bali Nine" gang were executed by firing squad, one died of cancer and another was released in 2018.Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush and Martin Stephens remain in jail after being convicted for trying to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin off the holiday island of Bali.
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