Twenty years for smuggled pot. Read on.
Indonesia's attorney-general says Schapelle Corby should have received life in prison instead of just 20 years for trying to smuggle marijuana into his country and supports a prosecution appeal to have her sentence increased.
Claims by cabinet minister Abdul Rahman Saleh that the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman has been punished too lightly underscore the gamble her defence team might be taking by launching its own appeal to have the conviction and sentence quashed.
In Indonesia, an appeals court can raise a sentence if it is dissatisfied with an appeal.
Not long ago there was another trial in Indonesia.
The accused leader of an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group was sentenced to 30 months in jail by an Indonesian court for conspiracy charges related to the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202 people, including seven Americans.
Riddle me this. Why only 30 months for conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of over 200 people but 20 years for possession of pot? Read about the Indonesian corrupt system at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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