Bad news for the Australian boy facing charges of possessing illegal drug in Bali. Indonesian prosecutors said he will be processed at the island's notorious Kerokoban jail, where fellow Australians are also serving time.

The lawyer and parents of the 14-year-old boy from Morisset Park in Lake Macquarie were hoping he won't be sent to the home away from home of Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine when lead prosecutor Atmaja broke the bad news Monday.

Atmaja, however, assured the boy's parents that he will separated from other prisoners at the notorious Kerokoban jail, according to reports from the Daily Telegraph and Perth Now.

Police will bring the boy to Kerokoban jail later this week or early next week. His stay in the prison may take at least a week while prosecutors finalise if he will be locked up or sent to a rehabilitation class for drug addicts.

The boy's lawyer, Mohammad Rifan, is hoping to win a rehabilitation order from the court just like what Victorian man Ricky Rawson received last month for carrying methamphetamine. The boy's blood and urine test results on Monday indicated he is positive for drug use, which will support his defense that he is an addict who deserves rehab.

If Rifan fails to convince prosecutors, the boy becomes a prison resident like Corby at the Kerokoban jail, who is serving 20 years, and the nine Australians convicted in 2005 for trying to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from Indonesia to Australia. Of the Bali Nine, Renae Lawrence received a 20-year sentence while Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush and Martin Stephens received life sentences.

The remainder, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, are facing execution.

Life at Indonesian prisons is hard as former prisoner Christopher Parnell of Victoria described in a 2002 book about his incarceration in Indonesia from 1985 to 1996 for hashish possession. Parnell was almost killed by other prisoners over a food fight and contracted hepatitis A, B and C from ensuing blood transfusions. He also suffered a stroke, for which reason he was released before completing his 20-year sentence.

The notorious Bali prison Kerokoban.