Jakarta: Shaun Davidson, the Australian who escaped from a Bali prison this week, could have more than two extra years tacked onto his sentence for property damage if he's recaptured.
Bali corrections chief Surung Pasaribu warned that Davidson, and the three other foreign prisoners he fled with, would face further punishment for damaging property after they broke a hole in the ceiling of the Bedugul block sometime before 8am on Monday morning and then apparently fled through a tunnel.
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Shaun Edward Davidson has escaped from Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail with just two-and-half months of his one-year jail term left to serve.
Under Indonesian law the maximum penalty for property damage is two years and eight months' jail.
Any remissions for good behaviour would be revoked and they would be placed back in the "introduction cells", which are the most cramped in the chronically overcrowded jail.
Asked if they would be put into solitary confinement – the notorious cell tikus (rat cell) in Kerobokan jail, Mr Pasaribu said: "Let's wait for them to return. Don't make them afraid".
In an interview with Fairfax Media last September, Davidson said when he first got to the jail 20 people were crammed inside the cells allocated to new prisoners. They were not even given a mat.
"No beds, no nothing, you don't get given anything. Just like concrete floors. In the corner they have got a bit blocked off where there is a hole in the ground. That's pretty much the toilet and the shower," he said at the time.
However perversely, it appears Davidson was hopeful of extending his stay in Hotel K, as the jail is colloquially known.
![Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov Iliev is one of the two escaped convicts who has been arrested, Indonesian police say.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170622133648im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/u/j/n/e/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwwc0h.png/1498130822209.jpg)
He has just 10 weeks to serve of his one-year jail term for using the passport of another man.
Outstanding warrants remain for the 33-year-old, who failed to show up at the Perth Magistrates Court in 2015 on charges of possessing methamphetamine and cannabis with intent to sell or supply.
![Authorities comb the area where the escape is believed to have taken place.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170622133648im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/u/9/9/8/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwwc0h.png/1498111913153.jpg)
"It's quite simple. He didn't want to come back to Australia and do more jail time," a former inmate told Fairfax Media.
"I spent a lot of time with those guys. The breakout is no surprise to me."
![Australian man Shaun Davidson is still on the run.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170622133648im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/6/v/n/k/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwwc0h.png/1498130822339.jpg)
Four days after their brazen escape the fugitives remain at large with Bali authorities still scratching their heads as to how they managed to pull it off.
Mr Pasaribu believes the tunnel, dug under the noses of the prison guards, was the work of professionals, expressing incredulity there was no evidence of digging.
![The tunnel through which the Kerobokan inmates escaped.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170622133648im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/u/5/j/k/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwwc0h.png/1498130822274.jpg)
"There was no left over dirt. So professionals. Hopefully we can uncover the matter," said Mr Pasaribu.
He said the "professionals" could have come from inside or outside the jail. "When I asked my officers, they didn't know there was a hole there."
The four escapees also include Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov Iliev, 43, who was serving a seven year sentence for an ATM scam that fleeced people of money using a skimming device, Malaysian Tee Kok King and Indian Sayed Mohammed Said, who were both doing time on drugs charges.
The Royal Malaysian Police reportedly said it would co-operate with Indonesian authorities to track down King by monitoring "hiding places" should he return to Malaysia.
On the night of the escape, the tower overlooking the tunnel was not staffed due to a shortage of prison guards. There are just 10 on duty on any night.
Kerobokan jail – built to house just 323 inmates – is also desperately overcrowded with more than 1300 inmates, most of whom are on drug charges.
Prisoners are forced to sleep on the ground in common areas when there is no room in the cells.
Prison governor Tonny Nainggolan said this week he had requested 200 extra prison guards.
Ministry of Law and Human Rights spokesman Effendy Perangin Angin said overcapacity was a problem in jails throughout Indonesia.
"Our ministry has asked for 10,000 prison officials for all prisons throughout the country but the Ministry of State Apparatus and Bureaucracy Reforms, [which] is in charge of supplying new civil servants, has not yet responded to our request," Mr Perangin Angin said.
The ministry had checked whether prisoners at Kerobokan could be transferred to other jails in Bali, such as Singaraja, but they too were full and understaffed. "It is not easy," he said.
He said the prisons were full of drug convicts. "Even users are put in jail when they should be in a rehabilitation centre. This kind of thing makes the prisons full."
Mr Perangin Angin said when there was a jailbreak or unrest, the ministry applied a "firefighter strategy", deploying police officers to guard the jail for some time.
"After the situation has cooled down, we withdraw them," he said.
"Another strategy is to build good relations between prisoners and prison officers, which is why we often hold religious activities inside the jail."
He said he found it strange the four foreigners had escaped when they didn't have travel documents and would not be able to go back to their own country.
Meanwhile, Australian tourists are taking selfies with the hole of the now infamous escape tunnel.