"Of the number, 18 are convicted prisoners and six detainees," Karobokan Prison chief Yon Suharyono said here Wednesday.
Coming from 10 different countries, the foreigners were mostly involved in drug-related offenses.
They consisted of 11 Australians, four Japanese, two Swiss nationals, one Nepalese, one Algerian, one American, one South African, one Briton, one Hungarian and one Korean,
They were convicted or being detained for drug abuse, drug trafficking and drug smuggling.
The Australian convicts included the so-called "Bali 9" group who had tried to smuggle 8.2 kilogrmas of heroin from Ngurah Rai Airpot, Bali, to Australia in 2005.
Of the nine Australians two had been sentenced to death, six had received a life sentence and one had to spend 20 years in prison.
The two death-row convicts are Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, those sentenced for life are Michael Czugat, Martin Eric Stephens, Scott Anthony Rush, Tach Duc Tanh Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew James Norman, and the one who was sentenced to 20 years in jail is Renae Lawrence.
Meanwhile, Australian Schapelle Leigh Corby was sentenced to 20 years for smuggling in 4.2 kilograms of marijuana.
Nepalese Bhisnu Bahadur Tarki and American Derick Arthur Weston were sentenced in the same case as Corby.
Suharyono said the Denpasar prison had 897 inmates (600 convicted prisoners and 297 detainees) and of the number, 403 were convicted in drug cases. Of the 403 drug offenders, 303 were convicts and 100 detainees. Of the 403 convicted drug offenders, 268 were men and 35 women, and of the 100 drug-case detainees, 85 were men and 15 women.(*)
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