Bali: Australian Sara Connor has indicated she will not appeal her increased sentence of five years' jail for the fatal group assault of a Bali police officer to the Supreme Court.
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The 46-year-old had a harsher sentence imposed in the High Court on May 15 after the prosecution appealed the initial four year jail term.
Now Connor and the prosecution both have the opportunity to appeal again to Indonesia's highest court - the Supreme Court.
However Denpasar District Court clerk Nengah Sanjaya said a scared-looking Connor said: "I don't want to appeal, I don't want to appeal."
Wayan Sudarsa, a Bali police officer for 35 years, was found dead on Kuta beach on August 17 last year, with 42 wounds to his body.
Connor and her British DJ boyfriend David Taylor were both found guilty of fatal group assault in the Denpasar District Court and sentenced to four and six years' jail respectively.
Taylor confessed to bashing Mr Sudarsa with several objects including a Bintang beer bottle after he accused the police officer of stealing Connor's handbag.
Connor insisted she was innocent and had only been trying to separate the men as they brawled in the sand.
However a panel of three judges found Connor's light sentence did not take into consideration two aggravating factors.
These were that Connor had not tried to help Mr Sudarsa as he lay face down in the sand and she had damaged Indonesia's - specifically Bali's - tourism image.
Mr Nengah said he had delivered the High Court ruling to Connor in Kerobokan jail on Tuesday morning.
"There was someone there helping to translate," he said. "Her face looked scared, she thought the ruling was a notification from the prosecutor that they were going to appeal the case (to the Supreme Court)."
Connor was no doubt apprehensive because it is common for appellate courts in Indonesia to impose harsher sentences on appeal.
Heroin smugglers Scott Rush, Si Yi Chen, Matthew Norman and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, part of the Bali nine, had their sentences increased to the death penalty on appeal to the Supreme Court.
And convicted cannabis smuggler Schapelle Corby, who is due to be deported back to Australia on Saturday, had her 15-year sentence increased to the original 20-year term when it was appealed in the Supreme Court.
Mr Nengah said Connor and the prosecution had 14 days to submit an appeal.
"If no one appeals, the High Court ruling will be inkracht (final and binding)," he said.
