Muktha goes home.
Children in prison - hypocrisy.
Indonesian government puts Australian government to shame.
The Indonesian Justice Minister and the Indonesian President have intervened to prohibit the remand of the Australian 14 year old in Bali in Kerobokan Prison so as to protect the welfare and rights of children, however importantly to send a loud message to the Australian government that they need to better consider the impoverished Indonesian children who are languishing in Australian adult prisons - and that they should in the very least be within the appropriate jurisdictions.
The hypocrisy and the disregard by Australia of Indonesia's children while Australia cries almost with a monotonous wail about an Australian child burns deep with Indonesian authorities.
Prime Minister Gillard and Foreign Minister Rudd have been exposed by the Indonesian government as hypocrites, shamelessly discriminatory and as human rights abusers - Gillard and Rudd have the capacity to do as they have for the Australian child in Bali, and as the Indonesian Justice Minister and Indonesian President have for the Australian child, however they have not.
The incarceration of Indonesian's poorest children in Australian prisons should be a matter brought up at the CHOGM by other member states concerned that a Commonwealth nation would incarcerate children in adult prisons.
The Indonesian consulates and the embassy are disturbed by Australia's disregard and hypocrisy and though they are working to avoid a diplomatic incident, though Australia screams loud for the Australian boy (through political opportunism where Rudd and Gillard are competing with each other), the Indonesians want their children released into the custodial care of the Indonesian consulates.
Last week Mukthar flew out of Perth, to his Indonesian island home of Rote, after spending 15 months in WA's HAKEA Prison.
Mukthar is now 18, his remaining teenage years wasted in an Australian adult prison.
There are at least 16 Indonesians remanded at HAKEA whose ages are in dispute, yet little is done for them, nothing for them by the Australian government who is responsible for their incarceration.
Perth District Court dismissed charges against the teenager who was 16 at the time of his incarceration - and he never committed a crime. In an abominable insult the $400 he saved in prison working at $4 per day was confiscated and used to 'pay' for the one-way ticket to Indonesia. He should be entitled to mandatory compensation for the years taken from him by the Australian government.
I have been highlighting around the country that there maybe up to 100 Indonesian children languishing in Australian adult prisons - it does not matter whether it is one 1 or 100, it should never happen that a child finishes up in an Australian adult prison.
A national inquiry is urgently needed to expose and end the incarceration of Indonesia's children in Australian adult prisons - children who were cooks and deckhands on boats providing safe passage to asylum seekers, and children who were fishing in excised waters to feed their families.
Contact: Gerry Georgatos - 0430 657 309
PHD Researcher, Australian Deaths in Custody
Human Rights Alliance, and Advocate for the Freedom of Indonesian Children from Australian Adult Prisons.