(13 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denpasar, Indonesia – 13 June 2024
1. Car arriving at Denpasar District Court
2. Troy Andrew Smith exiting vehicle wearing inmate vest
3. Smith walks into temporary detention room
4. Smith inside the temporary detention room
5. Smith hiding behind the wall inside the temporary detention room
6. Sign of “Denpasar District Court”
7. Smith walks into the courtroom and sits down
8. Presiding judge opening the trial
9. Various of Smith sitting on defendant’s chair
10. Pan left of the courtroom
11. Prosecutor reading indictment
12. Prosecutor reading indictment with judges in the background
13. Wide of the courtroom
14. Zoom out from Smith talking to his lawyers and sitting down on defendant’s chair
15. Presiding judge closing court session
16. Smith walks away
17. Setup of the defendant’s lawyer, Ida Bagus Gumilang Galih Sakti, talking to the journalist
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ida Bagus Gumilang Galih Sakti, Lawyer representing Troy Andrew Smith:
“All the witnesses from the prosecutor stated that he was just a user, even though there is an article (charge) of possession and other articles (charges) on the document, but this is going to be our part as a lawyer to defend our client, how to make sure that our client is (only) a user, so we need to proof that in front of the judges.”
19. Sakti talking to the journalist
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Ida Bagus Gumilang Galih Sakti, Lawyer representing Troy Andrew Smith:
“Yes, he was nervous and depressed, pretty sure you can see from his face, but I tried to make him calm down and tried to make him believe that we can get him rehabilitation and he can go back to his family as soon as possible, that’s what we’re hoping.”
21. Exterior of Denpasar district court
STORYLINE:
A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on Thursday began the trial of an Australian man who faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted of possessing methamphetamine under the country’s tough drug laws.
Troy Andrew Smith, from Port Lincoln in South Australia, was arrested on April 30 after police raided his hotel near Kuta beach and seized 3.15 grams (0.1 ounce) of crystal methamphetamine from his room, authorities said.
The arrest followed a tip that Smith had received a suspicious package containing toothpaste by mail from Australia.
Prosecutors at the District Court in Denpasar, Bali’s provincial capital, said he violated anti-narcotics laws that carry a penalty of up to 12 years in prison and a fine of 8 billion rupiah ($491,000).
Authorities reduced the initial charge of drug trafficking, which carries a possible death penalty, to the less serious charge of drug use after a police drug assessment team determined he was a drug user.
After the charges against Smith were read, the panel of three judges adjourned the trial until June 20.
Indonesia has very strict drug laws and convicted traffickers can be executed by a firing squad.
More than 150 people are on death row, mostly for drug crimes, and about a third of them are foreigners.
Eighteen people convicted of drug-related offenses have been executed under current President Joko Widodo, who took office in 2014.
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