Your comments on the sentences handed down by South Jakarta District Court of 10 years'€™ imprisonment for a Canadian teacher and an Indonesian teaching assistant from the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) for sexual abuse, while a parent of a student at another international-standard school has reported a similar case to the police:

This is the result when only the rich can pay for an education that requires further payment to gain employment and then advancement.

Noones

Honestly speaking, if someone interfered with my child, no amount of money would make me drop the case. Money would not even enter into the equation.

The safest place for a pervert who did such a thing would be in jail where I, or any member of my extended family, could not get at him.

That is why I do not believe there was any crime committed here.

Deede S.

It is a dark day for the rule of law in Indonesia.

J. Than

All the key things that make nonsense of the verdict are in the public domain and, therefore, open to public scrutiny.

And there are some who are quite aware of the glass-walled room, the magic stone, the gibberish about how not having enough sex makes you a pedophile or having too much makes you gay, etc., and yet still think the verdict is sound.

Fred Frogley

Three different families plus the judge could not all be crazy. There has got to be some truth to this.

Fik

The words '€œrepeatedly abused'€ may be the key here. The head judge cannot simply ignore one fact or the other if it is her final verdict that repeated abuse happened.

Since doctors in Singapore swore that there was no evidence of abuse, was there any other evidence that the court can show to prove the repeated abuse allegation?

Ica Reaboutu

This case only serves to highlight the absolute contempt that Indonesian authorities have for even the semblance of a mature and balanced process of legal analysis and judgment.

Those of us who have lived here for some time have been well aware of these shortcomings and treat them with guarded respect and understanding, but the judgment in this case has trawled new depths of depravity with a disregard for human rights that is breathtaking.

Western governments in particular should be posting warnings on their respective websites about taking up employment in Indonesia in rather the same way they do about potential terrorism.

Guerindo

A case erupted when finally the victims opened their mouths and the teachers got what they deserved. Of course these teachers did not rape underage children in the classrooms; that would be ridiculous. Many expats say that rape did not happen, but there is never smoke without fire.

That an ignorant remark was published in the media that the West is not going to invest in Indonesia anymore due to this rape case is even more ridiculous.

The West is at present experiencing economic problems, so how could it invest? The economy in Europe is still problematic and expats are only too happy to work in Asia. China, Korea and Japan are still investing in this country, so what is new?

Pedophiles should stay at home. The sentence would be much worse than in Indonesia.

Lynna
Bogor, West Java

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