Overview

• Thomas Parker was arrested on January 21 at a villa near Kuta beach after collecting a package delivered by a motorcycle taxi driver that tested positive for over one kilogram of MDMA.
• He proved during police questioning that the package was sent by a drug‐dealer friend known as Nicky and that he did not order or profit from the shipment.
• Prosecutors initially charged him with trafficking—a crime that carries a potential death sentence—but investigators reduced the count to concealing information when no evidence linked him to ordering the drugs.
• Judges cut the sentence from the one year sought by prosecutors to 10 months in jail, crediting his lack of prior convictions, expressions of remorse and promise to reform, and ordered that time served be deducted.
• Indonesia enforces stringent drug laws with roughly 530 people on death row for drug offenses, including 96 foreigners, although no executions have been carried out since 2016.