Dec 26, 2013
Schappelle Corby: Could be out of prison by 2015. Photo: Jason South
Indonesia has cut Schapelle Corby's sentence by two months as part of an annual Christmas remission program.
The remission was for good behaviour, justice spokeswoman Ika Yusanti said on Thursday.
She would not discuss the 36-year-old's prospects for parole.
The Bali corrections board in August recommended Corby for early release from the notorious Kerobokan jail but the process has been bogged down by bureaucratic wrangling.
Corby was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2005 for smuggling 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali the previous year.
But she has received several remissions and a sentence cut of five years from the president after she filed an appeal for clemency.
If granted parole, Corby would live with her sister on Bali.
If she continues to receive the usual sentence reductions during her parole period, she could be free to return home to Australia by mid-2015.
Renae Lawrence, part of a group of Australian drug traffickers known as the Bali Nine jailed at Kerobokan, also had her sentence cut by two months. She was originally jailed for 20 years.
Under the Christmas program, the justice ministry granted 8429 prisoners across the country sentence cuts.
Sentences are routinely cut in Indonesia to mark major religious celebrations and the country's independence day on August 17.