‘I want to know why he died’: family seeks justice over Australia’s jailing of Indonesian child

Erwin Prayoga was 14 when he was wrongly jailed as an adult in Western Australia. Shortly after he was deported to Indonesia, he died in agony

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Two dates are carved into the wood block marking Erwin Prayoga’s makeshift grave.

For passersby on Rote Island, one of Indonesia’s most impoverished regions, the numbers hold no great significance – another boy from a poor family, dead at 16.

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