Jakarta. Police on Tuesday said that four Jakarta International School teachers, previously slated for deportation over an immigration technicality, would face questioning next week over allegations of involvement in a child abuse scandal.
The accusations, first brought by the Indonesian Commission for Child Protection, or KPAI, involved a six-year-old.
The allegations came after the arrest in April of six janitors employed by outside cleaning contractor ISS over the alleged rape of a 6-year-old in the JIS kindergarten bathroom. One of the the suspects died in custody, allegedly after he drank cleaning fluids.
KPAI’s allegations centered on a different student.
“The question of the teachers’ questioning is planned for next week,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said on Wednesday. “We have sent the summons this week, hopefully they can be questioned next week.”
He would not reveal the identities of the teachers who would face questioning.
“Regarding their initials, which countries they’re from, their gender, we’ll tell you later,” he said. “They’re under the supervision of the immigration office after we ask them to delay deportation.”
Since the scandal broke, various bureaucracies have cracked down on the school over seemingly unrelated technicalities. Immigration officials said they would deport 20 of the school’s foreign kindergarten teachers over immigration issues — they were registered as elementary school teacher, not as early childhood educators. The police have scrambled to halt four of these deportations in order to investigate the KPAI’s claims.
No teachers or direct employees of the school have been named suspects.
“Tomorrow, we will ask a psychologist to make the [alleged] victim talk,” Rikwanto said. “[Psychologists] know how to do it.”
JIS lawyer Harry Pontoh told the Jakarta Globe that the school was considering taking legal action against the KPAI for overstepping its bounds as a child protection agency in making unproven public accusations implications the school’s teaching staff.
By Jakarta Globe on 07:58 pm Jun 11, 2014
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