Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will be freed from prison in Bali sooner than scheduled after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia approved a five-year cut to her sentence.
Corby, now 34, was arrested at Bali's international airport in 2004, with more than 4kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag.
She claimed she had been set up, but was sentenced to 20 years. She has been held at Kerobokan prison in Bali ever since.
Combined with maximum time off for good behaviour, Corby would be released in mid-2015, but the ABC reports she could be released earlier.
After Corby asked the president for clemency in 2010, a supreme court judge advised him to grant a five year cut in her sentence.
Corby, originally from the Gold Coast, has always maintained her innocence and claims she was the victim of drug smugglers who placed the marijuana in her luggage.
In recent years there have been concerns over her mental state.
In the 2010 report to Mr Yudhoyono, the judge said there was no evidence to back Corby's claim that the marijuana in her bag belonged to someone else.
''Since the beginning, the convict kept denying the evidence was hers, that it belonged to other people, but there has been no evidence to support this,'' the judge said.
