SCHAPELLE Corby has found an unlikely fan in the new governor of Kerobokan prison, who has declared the Australian inmate is "beautiful, attractive, and polite".
But Farid Junaedi warned the former beauty therapist may have a while to wait for freedom, with her release on parole to live with sister Mercedes Corby still tied up by Indonesian beauracracy.
During a ceremony welcoming him to the notorious Balinese jail this week, Farid Junaedi said he had met Corby briefly along with other female inmates in block W.
He did not have a private conversation with the former Gold Coast beauty therapist but said she greeted him politely as he held a game for the prisoners to introduce themselves.
"She (Corby) looked cheer up when I held the game," Mr Junaedi told News Corp Australia.
"She actively participated. She smile and sometime laugh. She looked fine."
The convicted drug smuggler's mood and appearance has improved in recent weeks as she anxiously awaits news of her parole, which could soon be approved.
However, Mr Junaedi indicated this week that the procedure for her parole could be protracted.
"I cannot predict it, because it is a long process. The decision will be made by the Justice and Human Rights Minister," he said.
"From our perspective, we have completed (documents). If they are not completed, the penitentiary department will send a notification letter on what we should add. So far, there is no such letter."
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Corby, 36, has spent more than nine years in Kerobokan, sharing a cell with up to 13 other women sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on mattresses on the floor.
She was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to smuggle 4.1kg of cannabis into Bali in October 2004.
But following a series of cuts to her sentence for good behaviour, it is expected she may be released on parole before Christmas but would have to live with her sister Mercedes and her husband and children in their Kuta home until 2017.
Corby's glowing first impression on Mr Junaedi follows a positive relationship she had with his predecessor, I Gusti Ngurah Wiratna, who has been involved in her bid for parole.
At the welcoming ceremony for Mr Junaedi this week, Bali Nine inmate Myuran Syukumaran presented Mr Wiratna with a painting of the outgoing governor and his family.
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