The remaining five members of the notorious Bali Nine drug smugglers serving life sentences in Indonesia will be returned to Australia next month, according to multiple reports.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reportedly made a direct request to Indonesia’s new President Prabowo Subianto on the sidelines of this month’s APEC conference in Peru.

Indonesian sources told News Corp and Nine Newspapers that the transfer would happen next month.

The five still locked up in Indonesia are Matthew Norman, Martin Stephens, Si Yi Chen, Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj.

The Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 trying to smuggle heroin — strapped to their bodies — from Indonesia to Australia.

The two ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were sentenced to death and executed on 29 April, 2015 despite diplomatic efforts to seek clemency for the reformed prisoners.

Renae Lawrence’s life sentence was successfully reduced to 20 years on appeal and in 2018 she was released when it was commuted.

A fourth Bali nine member, Tan Duc Than Nguyen, died from stomach cancer in 2018.

The original Bali Nine were arrested in 2005.

Indonesia’s co-ordinating minister for legal affairs, human rights, immigration and corrections, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, confirmed the prisoners’ move to The Weekend Australian.

“In Peru, the Australian Prime Minister made the request for the transfer of Australian prisoners with President Prabowo,” Mahendra said on Friday.

“The Indonesia President responded that they are currently —reviewing and processing the ­matter, and it is expected to be ­carried out in December.”