AN INDONESIAN corrections officer has been caught drug trafficking on prison island Nusakambangan, the place where Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran lived out their last days before being executed for the same crime.

According to the Jakarta Globe, the prison guard was busted carrying 27 packets of crystal methamphetamine, weighing 13.5 grams each.

Cilacap Police chief Ulung Sampurna Jaya said the guard, Bayu Anggit Permana, was arrested at Wijayapura Port — the gateway to Nusakambangan — following a month-long investigation based on a police tip-off.

Permana has since confessed to receiving the drugs from an inmate named Abdul Rosyid at Batu Penitentiary, one of the prisons located on the island, who later admitted he was paid Bayu Rp 2.5 million ($191) to smuggle the drugs

“Based on his confession, our officers then searched [the inmate’s] cell,” the police chief said.

The prison guard faces a sentence of between 12 and 20 years for the trafficking, police said.

Convicted Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad on April 19 after spending 10 years on death row.