Corby may get sentence reduced

Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby. Photo / AP

Convicted Australian drug smugglers Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence are expected to receive small cuts to their Indonesian jail sentences for Christmas.

An official from Kerobokan Prison in Bali told AAP the sentence reductions, a reward for good behaviour, are expected to be announced in the coming days and possibly as early as Christmas Day.

"Our suggestion for special Christmas remission for Renae and Corby each is one month and 15 days," chief of registration at Kerobokan Prison, Made Suardana, told AAP on Thursday.

The prison director general at Indonesia's Justice Ministry has received the request but is yet to respond.

"That special Christmas remission has been suggested but up to now, we haven't received the letter yet. Usually, the remission received after ... Christmas," Suardana said.

Corby, 31, is serving a 20-year jail term after she was caught at Bali's airport in October 2004 with 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie-board bag.

Both she and Lawrence - who is also serving 20 years for her role in the failed Bali Nine plot to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin from Bali in 2005 - have received sentence cuts in the past, including in August as part of Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations.

If the latest cuts are confirmed it would be the eighth time Corby has had her sentence reduced with more than 18 months shaved off her term.

Lawrence, who like Corby received a five-month sentence reduction in August, has had almost two years cut from her sentence.

- AAP