Walkley Award winner Mick Tsikas has spent almost two decades documenting the fate of the Bali Nine. Video by AAP
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00:00I was blown away. They were just kids. They were 19-year-old kids.
00:04They obviously did something stupid, but they were way over their heads of what they've done.
00:11They didn't have a clue what was going to happen to them.
00:14Shocked. It was the first time I heard anyone being sentenced to death.
00:19And that young, seeing someone that young, it really resonated with me. I really felt it.
00:25I felt sorry for them. From the moment I saw them, I felt sorry for them.
00:29They were young kids that made a mistake. Did they deserve 20 years?
00:34In Australia, they would have gotten five to ten years.
00:40Here, they get death. They knew the price, but as young kids, you're bulletproof.
00:45Ten foot tall and bulletproof.
00:47They've lost half their life in a Bali prison, and now they're going to come to another prison.
00:54I think it would be bittersweet. They'll be happy at their home,
00:57but they've been calling Bali for 20 years their home.