An Indonesian court has commuted French drug smuggler Felix Dorfin’s death sentence to 19 years in prison, his lawyer told AFP today.

“Dorfin’s sentence has been commuted from death,” said the 35-year-old Frenchman’s lawyer Denny Nur Indra, citing the ruling by the high court on the island of Lombok, which is expected to be made public later today.

Police have arrested a young woman, identified by her initials SD, for allegedly leaving her newborn baby in a fishing pond in south Denpasar, making this the second case in recent weeks where an abandoned baby has been found dead in Bali.

Hema was about to leave Bali in a couple of hours, but she had spared a little bit of time before her departure to visit the Taman Baca Kesiman reading room and community space in Denpasar.

Less than a week after the arrest of a civil servant in Bali’s Bangli regency for dealing and using drugs, another civil servant from Klungkung regency has reportedly been arrested for possessing 3.31 grams of shabu (crystal meth).

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