Grandmother and mother of two Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was arrested after an X-ray machine detected 10.6lb (4.8Kg) of the Class A drug in in the lining of her suitcase.
She could now face death in Indonesia by a 10-man firing squad.
Sandiford, originally from Redcar in Teesside, claimed she was forced to become a drugs mule after her sons were threatened with death at home in England.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “We can confirm that a British national is facing the death penalty in Indonesia.
“We remain in close contact with that national and continue to provide consular assistance.
“The UK remains strongly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances.”
The cocaine she smuggled was worth around $2.5million (£1.58m).
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