Indonesian teens recall Australian jail nightmare
Two Indonesian teenagers who were jailed in Australia as people smugglers say they were subjected to sexual harassment and drug use in Sydney's Silverwater prison.
Wearing disguises and taking on fake names, the two boys fronted local media to tell their stories.
Susilo and Bambang were 15 and 17 respectively when they were recruited to work on boats and tricked into travelling to Christmas Island.
They say they told Australian authorities their age, but the Government used wrist X-rays to claim the boys were adults and imprisoned them with adult criminals and drug users.
They were also strip-searched, were sexually humiliated and witnessed drug use in Silverwater jail.
It took more than a year of detention for 15-year-old Susilo to be recognised as a minor and returned to Indonesia late last year.
The Human Rights Working Group says Australia has breached the United Nations convention on protecting the rights of the child and is vowing to pursue the Federal Government.
During a visit to Australia early this month, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on Australia to accelerate the release of underage crew members caught on people smuggling boats.
The Federal Government had reviewed the cases of 28 Indonesian crew members who had been prosecuted in Australia on people smuggling offences.
Fifteen were released because of concerns about their age.
The review was prompted by requests from Indonesia and the Australian Human Rights Commission following public concerns about the X-ray technology used to determine age.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-2...r-jail/4144392
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Indonesian teens recall Australian jail nightmaremonotheist
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20-Jul-2012 07:34 PM
If only they were a trio, then there could have been Yudhoyono!Susilo and Bambang were 15 and 17 respectively when they were recruited to work on boats and tricked into travelling to Christmas Island.
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20-Jul-2012 08:02 PM
The shocking thing is not so much their age, but the stuff that Australians allow to occur in their prisons. Is Australia happy to be like some kind of third-country?
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22-Jul-2012 08:27 AM
How Indonesia allows itself to be humiliated by Australia for a few dollars:
Indonesian minors claim abuse
TWO Indonesian teenagers detained in Sydney's Silverwater prison say they endured frequent sexual harassment and pressure to take narcotics during their more than year-long incarceration.
The two Indonesian boys - identified as Bambang, 17, and Susilo, 17 - were released from the adult male penitentiary last December, but their lawyer Lisa Hiariej says they have been too traumatised to speak until now.
''Every morning the prisoners would put their penises in the boys' faces and say, 'look, you are Indonesian, you are so small'. They were terrified and intimidated,'' Ms Hiariej told The Saturday Age.
According to the lawyer, the prisoners would regularly rub their genitalia against the boys in mock sodomy and urge them to take drugs such as cannabis and crystal methamphetamine.
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The claims have roused the ire of human rights groups, which have urged the Indonesian government to push for dozens of other minors detained in Australian prisons to be released.
According to Human Rights Watch, 408 Indonesian sailors - including 44 minors - are in detention in Australia on charges of human trafficking.
Arist Merdeka Sirait, head of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission, says stories of Indonesian minors being forced to perform sex acts in Australian jails are not uncommon.
He says it is why minors must be detained separately from adult prisoners, in accordance with the UN Convention on Children's Rights.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Michael Tene said the government was very concerned about the allegations but was confident that Australia was improving its legal processes to determine age, including assessing documents issued by the Indonesian government.
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