Indonesia has held off conducting executions for several years and the last known executions took place in 2016. However Herry Wirawan, 36, had been sentenced to life in prison in February, in a case that drew national attention to sexual abuse in the country’s religious schools.
Wirawan’s pattern of abuse at the school, also in Bandung, came to light when the family of a female student reported him to police for raping and impregnating their teenage daughter last year.
During his previous trial, it was revealed that Wirawan had raped the female students — many from poor families and attending the school on scholarships — over a period of five years. He also impregnated at least eight of them.
the defendant when arraign before the court, asked the judge for leniency, saying he wanted to be around to raise his children.
The case drew national outrage and increased pressure on parliament to approve a long-delayed bill on the “elimination of sexual violence”, that seeks to combat sex crimes and provide justice to victims, including in cases of marital rape.
The Bandung rape case has also shone a spotlight on the problem of sexual abuse in the Indonesian education system, with 14 out of the 18 cases reported to the Child Protection Commission last year taking place in Islamic boarding schools.
The high court on Monday hereby punish the defendant to a death by hanging sentence.
