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Release Of Aussie Drug Teen In Bali Shows Australia's Double Standard
A 14-year-old Australian boy arrested in Bali for buying marijuana during a family holiday on the Indonesian resort island will be home before Christmas - bringing cheer to many Australians.
The release, however, highlights Australians' double standard when it comes to treating inmates.
His plight generated widespread media coverage and a flurry of high-level diplomacy, with the Prime Minister Julia Gillard raising his fate with the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
In contrast, the plight of dozens of Indonesian teenagers locked away for up to two years in Australian jails for adults has attracted little attention.
Diplomatic efforts to secure their release - all were crew on boats ferrying asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Afghanistan - have been minimal.
Australian lawyers believe the boys, who say they are between 14 and 17, have been wrongly identified as adults through a discredited X-ray test.
Under a tough new law to fight people-smuggling, they each face at least five years in jail.
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