An Indonesian teacher, Wirawan, stunned many after his case was brought to light, and there was a need to safeguard children from sexual abuse at the country’s religious boarding schools.
In February, when Wirawan was sentenced to life in prison by a court in Bandung, prosecutors who had sought the death penalty filed an appeal.
“(We) hereby punish the defendant with the death penalty,” the judge said in a statement posted on the Bandung High Court’s website on Monday.
A court claimed in February that between 2016 and 2021, Wirawan sexually abused 13 girls between the ages of 12 and 16 and impregnated eight of his victims.
Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim majority country, has thousands of Islamic boarding schools and other religious schools that often provided the only way for the children of poorer families to get an education.
Ada Peter
