A SYDNEY music DJ and a renowned Belgian chef are the latest foreigners to face the wrath of Bali drug police after a raid on a party at the weekend.
Nicholas Bernard Taylor, a 41-year-old Australian, is among three people locked up at police headquarters on suspicion of possessing a small amount of hashish, heroin and cocaine.
His arrest on Sunday came after police raided a party at a private villa in Kerobokan.
The police allege partygoers threw drugs into the swimming pool and flushed them down the toilet when they realised officers had descended.
The search of Villa Armani came after police said they received a tip-off about an Italian citizen said to own the villa, whom they had followed and watched for the past two weeks, including at nightclubs.
A police source said that the man, Andrea Baldini, had tried to bribe them with "thousands of euros" at the scene.
The source said that Taylor, in Bali on a tourist visa, was arrested with about 1g of drugs and that he had allegedly admitted having them for personal use.
Those arrested were Taylor, Baldini and Belgian man Jean Francois Brouck, a chef at the Viceroy Hotel's CasCades Restaurant in Ubud who moved to Bali in 2003.
All three men are now being held at the Polda police headquarters in Denpasar, pending police interrogation as early as today and a decision on what charges they would face.
Drug possession carries a maximum 10-year sentence while addicts and users can utilise legislation carrying much lesser penalties, sometimes just three months.
While the amount of drugs seized is small, Indonesia's drug laws are harsh and Taylor is the latest in a long line of Australians to be arrested.