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Court rejects JIS student’s mother demand for Rp 1.7 trillion compensation
The court ruled that the case would not proceed after the court accepted objections lodged by the defendants’ lawyers.
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The South Jakarta District Court rejected on Tuesday a civil lawsuit against staffers of the Jakarta Intercultural School in Cilandak, South Jakarta. (Shutterstock/File)
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he South Jakarta District Court rejected on Tuesday a civil lawsuit against staffers of the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) in Cilandak, South Jakarta.
The lawsuit was filed by one of the parents of the school’s students, who in 2014 accused school staff of sexually abusing her child.
The civil lawsuit filed in September last year named 10 defendants – seven people and three institutions. They were Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman, Indonesian teacher’s assistant Ferdinant Tjiong and five former janitors at JIS who were outsourced from PT Indonesia Servant Service (ISS). The three institutions were the JIS Foundation, PT ISS and the Education and Culture Ministry.
Through the lawsuit, the plaintiff, identified only as MAK, demanded the court order the defendants to pay Rp 1.7 trillion (US$121.5 million) in material and psychological losses to the victim's family, among other things. The lawsuit also demanded the ministry shut down JIS.
However, the panel of judges in Tuesday’s hearing ruled that the case would not proceed after the court accepted exceptions or objections by the defendants’ lawyers.
The exceptions mainly argued that closing down a school was not the authority of a district court but of a state administrative court.
“The exceptions presented by the defendants’ lawyers are reasonable and accepted,” presiding Judge Lenny Wati Mulasimadhi said.
