JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities say they won't need Australian police officers to testify in court to get the Bali Nine before a firing squad.

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock today withdrew cooperation in the case, saying it was standing Australian policy not to assist in foreign death penalty cases.

Indonesian police arrested the nine in Bali in April after a tip-off from the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

Bali drug squad chief Colonel Bambang Sugiarto said testimony from AFP officers would not be required in court.

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ALL members of the Bali Nine will be facing possible death penalties when their drug-trafficking trials begin over the coming weeks.

Prosecutors in Bali have handed over files to the Denpasar District Court, clearing the way for trials to begin. Defence lawyers had been hoping they would only be charged with possession, which carries a 10-year jail term.

The team of six provincial prosecutors have asked court officials to schedule seven separate trials.

Four of the nine Australians, detained at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport in April with blocks of heroin weighing between 1.3kg and 2.9kg allegedly strapped to their bodies, will each be tried separately.

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An Adelaide man accused of drug possession in Indonesia is facing 20 years in jail police said today.

Former schoolteacher Graham Clifford Payne, 20, was arrested in the north Sumatra city of Medan in August.

Police allegedly found a pouch full of methamphetamines, known locally as shabu shabu, in his pocket.

A subsequent search of his home allegedly uncovered a heroin-filled syringe and more than 2000 tablets containing 11 different kinds of prescription drugs.

Detectives had originally planned to recommend only a 10-year jail term.

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Prosecutors in Bali have confirmed that all nine Australians arrested over an alleged heroin exportation conspiracy face charges carrying the death penalty.

The final legal step leading up to trials of the nine suspects was completed today when prosecutors handed the cases to the Denpasar District Court.

There will be seven trials, which are likely to begin in a month.

The four alleged 'drug mules' - Renae Lawrence, Martin Stephens, Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj - will have separate trials, as will the alleged ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

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CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby may have to wait another month to learn if she can go free from a Bali jail after judges wrote to Indonesia's highest court to ask for more time to make up their minds.

The appellant court, which could theoretically increase Ms Corby's 20-year sentence, had been due to rule by Thursday whether it would agree to quash or cut Ms Corby's sentence.

But lead lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea said today the judges had written to the Supreme Court to request another 30 days.

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The Muslim holy month of Ramadhan will soon be upon us. This year, however, Jakarta's nightlife has already gone into premature semi-hibernation. Recent police sweeps against nightclubs and bars and their accompanying vice, gambling and drug trades have had an unprecedented impact on the city's normally easy-going nightlife.

The new kicking out time is 2 a.m. and thousands of bar staff and club workers are apparently on the verge of being laid off.

Are nightclubs and bars the front line in a strange, new war? Five-star hotel clubs such as Tiga Puluh and CJs now require entry through some kind of demilitarized zone due to the continued threat of terrorism. Meanwhile, drive up to a club like Stadium these days and you run the risk of a police raid and a urine test in a mobile laboratory. What's going on? Has going out at night really become such an ideological and moral battleground? Or is it simply an easy political stick to beat, one that distracts the masses from the ceaseless graft and the rupiah's inexorable slide toilet-wards?

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Denpasar -- "IT'S like jumping into the lion's den and everybody trying to take a piece of you," says model Michelle Leslie to Norah Cullen, amid a legal and physical nightmare in a Bali police cell.

Ms Cullen, as much mother as friend, flew to Denpasar the day after Leslie was arrested for carrying two ecstasy tablets.

The Lebanese-born Sydney businesswoman was confronted too by the media circus that has enveloped her friend in the past fortnight. She found Leslie jammed into a cockroach-infested cell little more than two metres square with 12 women.

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Michelle Leslie, the Sydney model Bali police say they caught with two ecstasy tablets on her way to a dance party, could be jailed for up to 15 years if convicted.

The 24-year-old, who also uses the surname Lee, was arrested on Saturday but has refused to answer police questions, spending much of her time in tears.

An intelligence officer with the Bali drug squad, Major Mardiaz Kusin, said police had searched a car Leslie and two of her friends were in, outside a party at Bali's GWK Park - the site of the first anniversary commemoration of the Bali bombings.

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The cases against the nine Australians arrested on charges of allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin from Bali has taken another step forward.

The investigation has now been closed and their cases have been handed over to prosecutors in Denpasar.

The Australians appeared before prosecutors today as the case files and evidence were handed over.

All nine face the death penalty if convicted.

One of the accused, Renae Lawrence, maintains the nine did not have a choice in what they did.

"We didn't even know what it was - even if we did know what it was, I mean we didn't have a choice," she said.

She says she was forced to act as a courier because of threats to her and her family.

Prosecutors say the trials could start in about four weeks.

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JAKARTA: The Bali Nine have been told they'll face trial within weeks on drug charges that carry the death penalty.

Indonesian police have completed their investigation and their defence lawyers expect evidence files will be handed to Denpasar prosecutors on Monday, clearing the way for a series of trials.

Haposan Sihombing, the lawyer for Wollongong man Martin Stephens, 29, and Newcastle woman Renae Lawrence, 27, broke the news to his clients in Bali's Kerobokan Prison yesterday.

He said the pair, accused of trying to smuggle heroin from Bali to Australia in bags strapped to their legs and stomach, would be tried separately along with two others arrested at Bali airport in April.

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The Bali nine have been told they'll probably face trial within weeks on drug charges that carry the death penalty.

Indonesian police have completed their investigation and their defence lawyers expect evidence files will be handed to Denpasar prosecutors on Monday, clearing the way for a series of seven trials to start, probably in early next month.

Haposan Sihombing, the lawyer for Wollongong man Martin Stephens, 29, and Newcastle woman Renae Lawrence, 27, broke the news to his clients in Bali's Kerobokan Prison today.

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CANBERRA - Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been thrown a surprise lifeline by the Indonesian courts with the announcement that her case will be reopened to allow her lawyers to present new evidence supporting her claim that 4.1kg of cannabis was stuffed in her bag by an Australian drug ring.

The news, reported by ABC radio yesterday, follows Corby's 20-year sentence in May for taking the cannabis into Bali last year and comes ahead of her appeal against a decision that incited fury among opposing camps in Australia and Bali, triggered protests and even prompted death threats against Indonesian diplomats.

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SCHAPELLE Corby's drug smuggling trial will be reopened so new witnesses from Australia can be called.

Yesterday's shock decision by the Denpasar High Court paves the way for her lawyers to call the 12 witnesses they say could win her freedom.

It was greeted by whoops of joy and cries of "thank God" from her lawyers and family.

Corby's sister, Mercedes, was ecstatic.

"She is going to be relieved. It is really great news," she said.

Rosleigh Rose, Corby's mother, said she was "over the moon".

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Prosecutors in Bali have formally asked for an increase in the sentence handed to convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.

Corby was sentenced to 20 years jail and fined for carrying 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Indonesia in her bodyboard bag.

The prosecutors have appealed to the High Court of Denpasar against the leniency of the sentence, saying Corby has having been involved in a "transnational crime".

The appeal in part states that drug importation is a great danger to life, the community and the nation, and that the perpetrators of this form of transnational crime have to be punished with a severe penalty.

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About 40 people picketed in Jakarta to demand the death sentence for Schapelle Corby, the Australian who was convicted of drug trafficking in Bali.

The protesters also condemned a security scare at the Indonesian embassy in Canberra.

A powder sent to the Canberra embassy on Wednesday sparked fears of an anthrax attack and was linked to outrage in Australia over a 20-year jail term handed to Corby.

Carrying signs reading "Corby, drug dealer, must die", the protesters outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta urged the Bali courts to reject her appeal and sentence her to death, as allowed under Indonesian law.

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Bali's police chief has declared an all out war on drugs on the resort island.

However, Made Mangku Pastika insists the crackdown will not hurt tourism, because tourists will always be welcome in Bali and enjoy full police protection.

"It's an all-out war," General Pastika told Reuters newsagency.

"We are not just blindly catching the small suspects and the petty offenders," he said.

"We are going after the big ones - the big bosses - locals and foreigners."

General Pastika says Bali welcomes foreign tourists.

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I have been ruminating on the Corby case for weeks, like an old cow, jaws firmly chewing; the flavor of it troubling me, and this is why.

I lived in Bali for many years. Taking marijuana to Bali was like taking carved cats to Bali or batik to Java ... why would you as there is so much there? A lot of young tourists go to Bali to get a stash, hang out, smoke and watch the sunsets, and maybe get laid after a night at a club.

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Indonesia's Attorney-General says Schapelle Corby should be sentenced to life in prison.

"The 20 years in jail handed down by the Denpasar District Court is too light," Abdul Rahman Saleh told the Bali Post yesterday.

"She deserves to be sentenced to life."

Mr Saleh is supporting an appeal by prosecutors, who also say 20 years in prison for Corby is not sufficient punishment for drug-running.

Mr Saleh's comments came as the Australian Government lobbied Indonesia to enter into a prisoner transfer treaty to get the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman out of Bali's Kerobokan jail so that she can serve her sentence in Australia.

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A young Australian woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for smuggling marijuana on to Indonesia's Bali island, triggering angry scenes in court and an unusual public expression of sympathy for a convicted drug smuggler from her country's prime minister.

The trial of Schapelle Corby, 27, has attracted massive media interest in Australia, where many people believe her claims that the drugs were planted in her luggage. Scores of family members and supporters - many of them Australian tourists holidaying on the resort island - attended court.

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Schapelle Corby dried her tears behind the walls of Bali's Kerobokan jail tonight, vowing to fight her drug smuggling conviction and 20-year prison sentence.

In chaotic scenes at Denpasar District Court earlier, her shocked lawyers and family denounced the verdict handed down by three Indonesian judges as a miscarriage of justice. They announced an appeal would be filed as early as Monday.

But Indonesian prosecutors, who had demanded life in prison for the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman, complained she had got off too lightly.

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