A Chinese prisoner on death row in Indonesia escaped through a sewer by digging a tunnel from his jail cell.<br /> <br />Convicted meth smuggler Chai Changpan broke out of Tangerang Prison in Banten province on the outskirts of Jakarta on September 14 through a 30-metre long tunnel he scraped in the ground.<br /> <br />He crawled through the tiny passage using a chisel, crowbar, and screwdriver that he stole from the jail's kitchen. He eventually reached the sewers.<br /> <br />CCTV footage shows the fugitive emerging from the pipe network and walking away before disappearing in an alley.<br /> <br />Jakarta Police spokesman Yusri Yunus said Changpan had been planning the escape for ''five to six months''.<br /> <br />The inmate had reportedly timed his escape to coincide with the changing of the guards, according to Indonesia Directorate General of Prisons spokesman Rika Aprianti.<br /> <br />Changpan is now on the country's most-wanted list as officers search for him and immigration have put bans in place to stop him passing through the borders.<br /> <br />Police said that Changpan was put on death row in 2017 after being proven guilty of smuggling 110 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in the country.<br /> <br />Officers said this was not the first time that the convict escaped detention.<br /> <br />While he was being held at a police headquarters for court trials, he had run away along with other prisoners by creating a hole in the bathroom using an iron rod.<br /> <br />They climbed a 2.5-metre wall outside but was recaptured after three days in a rented apartment in West Java.<br /> <br />Police chief Yusri Yunus said an inmate confessed that Changpan had planned the breakout at least six months ago.<br /> <br />He said: "We received information from his friend in prison that he first planned to escape months ago. We will find question him if he has any information on Changpan's whereabouts."<br /> <br />Jailbreaks are common in the country's prisons that are mostly overcrowded and understaffed.<br /> <br />In 2018, 90 inmates escaped a prison in Banda Aceh province by demolishing a fence during a religious gathering while 400 inmates broke out of an overcrowded prison in Riau province a year earlier.
