Tjiong was returned to jail early yesterday but authorities are still looking for Bantleman, said the South Jakarta district attorney’s office.īoth men have maintained their innocence, and received backing from Jakarta’s expatriate community, foreign governments and the school, which has been a favourite with foreigners and wealthy Indonesians for decades.
“We believe Jakarta high court made a mistake in applying the law,” he told AFP, adding the judges decided the evidence in the original case had been “sufficient and convincing”. The staff from the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) were jailed in April last year for 10 years each after a legal process criticised as fraught with irregularities, but were freed several months later when their convictions were overturned on appeal.īut prosecutors appealed, and the Supreme Court reinstated the convictions for abusing young children and increased their sentences to 11 years, said court spokesman Suhadi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. The Supreme Court in Jakarta said it had on Wednesday thrown out the acquittals handed down by the high court in the case of administrator Neil Bantleman, who also holds British nationality, and teaching assistant Ferdinand Tjiong. A Canadian and an Indonesian have been ordered back to jail for committing sex abuse at a Jakarta international school after their acquittals were overturned, prompting fury yesterday from Canada at the “unjust” decision.
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