Australian man Lamar Ahchee arrested in Canggu, Bali, after allegedly trying to smuggle in 1.5kg of cocaine

Australian business manager Lamar Ahchee has been arrested in Bali after allegedly trying to smuggle 1.5kg of cocaine into Indonesia.

Balinese officers arrested the 43-year-old at a Canggu apartment on Thursday after custom officers allegedly found the drugs concealed in a package when it was X-rayed on arrival in Indonesia.

The Queensland man allegedly resisted the arrest and sustained multiple injuries.

The penalty for drug smuggling offences in Indonesia is life imprisonment or the death penalty.

It comes more than 10 years after nine Australians were arrested in Bali for attempting to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin — a street value of more than $4 million — out of Indonesia in 2005.

Ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in April 2015.

The remaining seven — Renae Lawrence, Scott Rush, Michael Czugaj, Martin Stephens, Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen — were sentenced to life in prison.