Bali Government officials say Schapelle Corby won’t receive special treatment

BALI Government officials say convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby won’t be treated like a VIP when she is deported to Australia next weekend.

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BALI Government officials have vowed that Schapelle Corby will be given no special treatment when her drug smuggling sentence ends and she is deported to Australia next weekend.

And the head of Bali’s Corrections department Surung Pasaribu said the fact Corby is shunning the media and afraid of being photographed was making things more difficult and he urged her to be more open.

“The problem is, Corby is never open to media, never shows herself. Why she did not show herself? To release our burden, Corby should be more open, even if there is no walking, no smiling, that depends on her, just be open,” Mr Pasaribu urged.

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Officials from the parole board, Immigration and the Law and Human Rights ministry met today in Denpasar to discuss plans for the deportation.

Schapelle Corby ‘won’t be given any special treatment’. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

They say the Corby family and the Australian Consulate have yet to advise them the details of Schapelle’s flight to Australia.

Corby’s 15-year drug smuggling sentence ends on May 27 and once she signs her parole for the last time, on that day, she must leave Indonesia, banned from returning for a certain period of time.

Ari Budijanto, the head of Ngurah Rai Immigration office, which will handle Corby’s deportation, said she would receive no special treatment and would not be treated as a VIP on that day.

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Mr Budijanto said it was a normal case which would be treated exactly the same as all other deportations.

Mercedes Corby arrives at the International Airport in Bali to support Schapelle. Picture: AAP

“I don’t know why it is so special, for me it is normal. She is just like foreigners who are deported because they don’t have stay permits in Indonesia, that’s all,” he said.

Plans for how the day of Corby’s release will unfold are still fluid but officials said today she would report to the parole board, sign her parole for the last time and then be taken to Immigration custody at one of two offices — Jimbaran or inside the airport — depending on the timing of her flight to Australia.

Earlier in the week officials said it was likely the need to visit the parole office would be dispensed with and all paperwork done at the Immigration office.

“Until now I haven’t communicated with the (Australian) Consulate. I hope I will have communication about the travel document, and the flight. I haven’t get information until now,” Mr Budijanto said.

Asked if it was possible Corby could go in the very early hours of Saturday morning, Mr Budijanto said: “It is better for us to get a sleep at night.”

Schapelle will not be kept in a holding cell at the airport. Picture: Supplied

And Mr Budijanto said that Corby would not be kept in a holding cell at the airport while waiting for her flight but would wait in a holding room.

Last week Mr Budijanto said he guaranteed she would be in a holding jail cell, like any other prisoner being deported.

Titiek Sudaryatmi, the chief of Bali’s parole board, said Corby must report to her office on May 27.

Corby remains holed up in her Kuta home, with sister Mercedes, who is helping with arrangements for May 27, her brother Michael and boyfriend Ben Panangian.