Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, a member of the infamous Bali Nine, has died in Indonesia.

The Indonesian Corrections Office confirmed the Vietnamese Australian died in hospital in East Java.

He was serving a life sentence for his role in a plot to smuggle more than 8 kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005.

According to reports, the 34-year-old from Brisbane died in recent weeks following a battle believed to be with terminal cancer.