Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lobbied the new Indonesian president to release the remaining members of the Bali Nine who are still serving life sentences.

The Age and the SMH Indonesian correspondent from 2012-14 Michael Bachelard told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'drug traffickers are not popular in Indonesia, particularly when they come from Western countries because there's kind of a feeling that Indonesia needs to stand up to Western countries and colonial powers.'