Overview

• Denpasar District Court on July 24 sentenced Jonathan Collyer, Lisa Stocker and Phineas Float to one year behind bars, deducting time served and dropping capital charges.
• Presiding Judge Heriyanti cited the trio’s guilty pleas and ‘polite’ behaviour in court as the basis for the reduced sentences.
• Two other foreign suspects arrested on July 13—a Brazilian carrying 3,086.36 g of cocaine and a South African with 990.83 g—remain in custody awaiting trial.
• Interrogations revealed the July 13 arrestees were promised payments by handlers known only as Tio Paulo and Cindy, but police have not yet located either individual.
• Indonesia enforces extremely strict drug laws with a de facto moratorium on executions since 2017 and holds around 530 inmates, including 96 foreigners, on death row.