Indonesia has agreed to repatriate a 69-year-old British woman who was on death row for trying to smuggle drugs into Bali.

Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to jail in 2013 for smuggling cocaine worth more than $US2 million ($A3.1 million) into the holiday island in Indonesia, which has some of the world's strictest drug trafficking laws.

Sandiford, 69, was found guilty of smuggling 4.8 kilograms of the drug hidden in the lining of her suitcase on a flight from Bangkok.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra, a senior Indonesian minister on legal affairs, said the two nations had agreed to release Sandiford on humanitarian grounds.

"Lindsay is old and sick. In prison she had good behaviour so that was enough reason to satisfy the request from the United Kingdom government that she be returned home and com

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