A Kiwi on trial in Bali for drugs smuggling was sweating so much during a customs check that his jacket was "soaked wet", an official says.

Teuila Fuatai finds herself relaxing in a Balinese paradise and considers relocating.

Bali prosecutors have rejected claims their indictment for a New Zealander charged with drug smuggling should be annulled before his trial begins.

He's one of the forgotten members of the Bali Nine drug smuggling gang but now Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen has spoken for the first time about his life in prison.

The Bali Nine drug-smuggling ringleaders have had something of a small reprieve, but even so, their life expectancy is likely to be measured in days rather than years.

Andrew Chan lived for a year in NZ. The link emerged when Kiwi Owen Pomana, a former prisoner turned Christian evangelist, visited Chan over Christmas.

Owen Pomana and Bali Nine ringleader Andrew Chan perform an impromptu haka at the end of a Christmas Eve service.

Indonesian officials are now unable to confirm whether Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will be executed this month.

The executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan could be further delayed, but Indonesia’s president has said “no way” to a prisoner swap offer.

The countdown to the grim finale of the Bali Nine drug-running affair has begun, with the Australian ringleaders expected to face a firing squad within days.

Condemned drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are coping remarkably well as their executions draw closer, according to one of their lawyers.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is revolted by the prospect of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's imminent executions.

Convicted Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are on their way to the prison island where they are scheduled to be executed.

Jakarta's Governor has reportedly said President Joko Widodo is considering different views on the death penalty, including his own advice that it should be removed from Indonesia's laws.

It wasn't long after I arrived in Bali that I realised I'd made a mistake, Heather writes.

An absent millionaire's place can be your home away from home, writes Tamara McLean.

The trial of a New Zealander accused of smuggling drugs into Indonesia was set to kick off today.

The trial for a Wanganui beneficiary being held in Bali on charges he smuggled 1.7kg of meth could start at any time, his lawyer says.

Indonesian authorities are waiting for a Nigerian drug boss and others to receive word their clemency bids have been rejected before scheduling their executions and that of two Australians.

Supporters are preparing a candelight vigil in Sydney as hopes fade the Bali Nine duo will escape an Indonesian firing squad.

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are, by all accounts, model prisoners.

Bali police have shot and arrested the man who allegedy organised the murder of New Zealand-raised businessman Robert Ellis.

There is no word yet on Australian Andrew Chan's fate as Indonesia risks diplomatic tensions with its plans to execute more drug offenders this year.

Two Australian men convicted in Indonesia over the "Bali Nine" drugs case will be executed at the same time.

A group campaigning to save two jailed Australians from the death penalty in Indonesia says the federal government must try harder to stop their looming executions.

Witnesses to a Bali assault where a New Zealand man allegedly beat his ex-girlfriend with a motorcycle helmet are set to front his trial.

Trip to meet dream woman landed "naive" New Zealander Antony de Malmanche in a police station cell with 27 others and facing the death penalty over drug smuggling.

The internet girlfriend of a Kiwi grandfather jailed in Bali after allegedly smuggling methamphetamine on to the island has been arrested, police say.

The lawyer for a Kiwi man facing the death penalty in Bali for alleged drug smuggling says police interrogated his client without him present.

An alleged Kiwi drug mule arrested in Bali has denied police claims he was part of an international drug syndicate.