Chan's parents arrive back in Sydney

Helen and Ken Chan have said what could be their final goodbye to their son Andrew Chan, who faces the death penalty in Indonesia.

Andrew Chan

Australian Andrew Chan inside a holding cell as he waits for his final appeal against his death sentence at Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia, on 8 October 2010. (File: EPA/MADE NAGI)

The parents of Andrew Chan have arrived back in Sydney as their son waits to hear details of his planned execution in Indonesia.

Helen and Ken Chan flew into Sydney Airport on Monday morning, after saying what could have been their final goodbye to their 31-year-old son.

Indonesian officials are expected to detail their plan to execute drug smugglers Chan and Myuran Sukumaran when they meet with Australian embassy staff in Jakarta later on Monday.

Helen and Ken Chan visited their son in Bali's Kerobokan prison along with the rest of their children on Sunday, the Nine Network reported.

Chan's parents, who have been in Bali for the past few weeks, are understood to be in poor health and have been forced to return to Australia.

Mr Chan left Sydney airport in a wheelchair on Monday.

Another son Michael Chan is believed to be staying on in Indonesia.

Last year Andrew Chan said he couldn't reconcile the pain he has caused his parents.

"It is like stabbing your own mother and father in the heart and ripping out that knife and watching them bleed to death," he told Fairfax.

Chan and Sukumaran, part of the so-called Bali Nine arrested in 2005 over a heroin trafficking plot, are facing execution by firing squad as early as this week.


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