Be Careful which Island you land on north of TI.........
From ninemsn today
Four Australians have each been jailed for two years for illegally entering Indonesia's Papua province.
The group was also fined 25 million rupiah ($A3,400), which could be exchanged for another two months imprisonment.
Vera Scott-Bloxam, 54, Hubert Hufer, 57, Karen Burke, 51, and Keith Ronald Mortimer, 60, were sentenced in Merauke District Court on Thursday, following a trial.
The group was accused of entering Indonesia illegally, after travelling to Papua on a small plane from Horn Island, off the tip of Queensland's Cape York on September 12.
The Australians have described it as a sightseeing flight and mistakenly believed they could get visas on arrival in Papua.
The pilot, William Scott-Bloxam, was later jailed for three years and fined 50 million rupiah ($A6,800) by Merauke District Court in Papua.
The fine could be exchanged for an extra three months imprisonment, the court ruled.
Following the verdict Vera Scott-Bloxam expressed disbelief.
"I can't believe this, I will let the lawyers deal with this," she said.
The group's lawyer Efrem Fangohoy flagged an appeal.
"We clearly reject this decision and we will go for an appeal," he said.
Papua province has been troubled by a low-level separatist insurgency since the 1960s.
Journalists are barred from entering Papua without special permission, and human rights groups have accused the Indonesian military of widespread human rights abuses there.