Australians Support Indonesian Government's Hard Line Stance
The "Bali Nine" - nine Australians caught smuggling heroin through Bali - were victim to the Indonesian government's tough stance on drugs. Of the nine, seven have received life terms in prison and two were sentenced to death via firing squad. Australia's Prime Minister John Howard supported Indonesia's right as a sovereign nation to punish the smugglers, and pleaded with young Australians, "please, take notice of this, I even beg...not to take the terrible risks that these young people have done, their lives destroyed in the case of two people."