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November 6th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda ONE of Indonesia’s leading child protection authorities has accused the parents of the 14-year-old Australian boy caught in Bali with cannabis of abusing the rights of their child amid reports they have sealed an exclusive media deal worth up to $300,000 with Channel Nine.
Indonesia’s National Commission on Child Protection has advocated to authorities to keep the teenager out of prison, including directly lobbying Bali police, but the head of the organisation, Arist Merdeka Sirait, says he was deeply disappointed with the mooted media deal.
‘‘It is a double standard,’’ Mr Arist said. ‘‘The parents have abused their own son’s rights, they have exploited [the situation] and the Australian media have done the same.
‘‘The [United Nations] Convention [on the Rights of the Child] says that children who face legal matters, their rights must be protected. For instance, their identity must not be revealed to the public.’’
Mr Arist’s negative reaction will not be only out of Indonesia and comes at a crucial time, midway through the boy’s trial and ahead of an expected sentence demand and verdict on Friday.
Arrested on October 4 with 3.6grams of cannabis, the boy has pleaded with a judge to let him go home after admitting he was a habitual marijuana smoker who found it difficult to give up.
His legal counsel have expressed their optimism that the schoolboy from Morisset Park will be released and prosecutors have been sympathetic to his situation.
However, the prosecutors’ sentence demand to the court will have to be authorised by senior figures in the Attorney-General’s office in Jakarta.
Reports of the media deal, which have not been confirmed or denied by the boy’s lawyers or Channel Nine, will not improve sentiment.
Australian diplomats repeatedly urged Indonesia to respect the rights of the boy as a juvenile, a lobbying effort that has been undercut by the reports journalists from Nine’s 60 Minutes will fly to Bali this week to begin filming the boy and reveal his identity.
The lobbying effort by Australian diplomats has siphoned considerable resources and taxpayers frequently pick up the legal tab for citizens in serious trouble overseas.
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