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Plans to return Australians home hit by complications [Video]

Jakarta: Indonesia has given the Australian government a draft proposal for how the remaining Bali Nine prisoners could be transferred home in the most tangible sign yet that it intends to call time on near-20 years the men have spent in Bali and Java jails.

Standing beside Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in Jakarta on Tuesday, Indonesian minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra said his government was not after anything in return for the proposed transfer and it was a gesture of goodwill from new president Prabowo Subianto.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, left, shakes hands with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional Affairs, Yusril Ihza Mahendra.Credit: AP

Yusril, the coordinating minister for law, human rights and corrections, said he hoped an agreement could be reached this month, but the fact that neither country had …

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