An Australian journalist will be deported from Indonesia today after being caught covering the story of two Australian drug traffickers on death row without the correct visa, immigration authorities said.
Candace Sutton, a reporter for the Daily Mail, was taken in for questioning by immigration officials on Wednesday as she interviewed a relative of one of the Australian convicts at a hotel on the main island of Java.
The interview was taking place in the port town of Cilacap, close to a prison island where the traffickers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are to be put to death.
No date has been set for the executions.
She will be put on a flight late today from Jakarta back to Sydney, authorities said.
Canberra has made repeated pleas for their citizens to be spared but Jakarta has insisted it will push ahead with the executions.
The looming executions have drawn global media attention, and hordes of journalists have descended on Cilacap.
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