de Malmanche was found guilty on Tuesday and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Watt says he has known de Malmanche for four years and been his minister for three.

Mr Watt testified in the court in early June before he visited de Malmanche in Kerobokan Prison.

"My experience in the court was a joke. It was a farce."

The court sat for one day a week over about three months.

On June 4 the defence had its one day to present its case but in reality it was only about two hours.

"I had maybe a dozen letters, character witnesses for Tony ... the judge asked me to pick the best one and summarise it. That was my testimony," said Watt.

52-year-old de Malmanche was arrested last December, after 1.7kg of methamphetamine was found in his backpack at Denpasar International Airport in Bali.

He had flown to Hong Kong to meet his internet girlfriend "Jessy".

De Malmanche had been speaking to Jessy online for about four months last year but was blinded by love and didn't see the signs, Watt said.

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He has also criticised the way two Australian detainees Andrew Chan and Myuran Shaveukumaran have been treated.

Following Easter Sunday mass, in Jakarta, Archbishop Ignatius told reporters the church was strictly against the use of the death penalty.

"We are worried and saddened that we are resorting to capital punishment and by the treatment of the detainees."

The Archbishop is known to be on excellent terms with President Joko Widodo.

He supported Widodo's election campaign.

This is the first time he publicly criticised of the President.

Archbishop Ignatius said he was saddened by the heavy-handed way in which the two Australian detainees were relocated from Kerobokan prison to the island where their execution is being planned.

The operation involved hundreds of balaclava-clad police and Sukhoi fighter jets.

"These men were handcuffed, was it necessary to be guarded by Sukhoi?" the archbishop said.

"For me that's not strictness, for me that's very saddening because it's obvious that power wants to show itself and human dignity is not cherished."

The Archbishop Ignatius said said using the death penalty was "a failure of humanity".

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