Mass sex abuse allegations force closure of boarding school in Indonesia
Key takeaways
- "Women are not sexual objects" read one.
- The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic boarding school, as he was escorted away by police.
- The case has provoked outrage in Indonesia, and highlights a systemic issue of sexual abuse in Islamic boarding schools across the country.
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Quinawaty Pasaribu,BBC News Indonesiaand Gavin Butler Facebook/Ilove Pati Kiai Ashari, 58, has faced a string of allegations over the years Hundreds of people descended on a girls' boarding school in the Indonesian village of Tlogosari, Central Java on 2 May, shouting chants and waving banners.
"Women are not sexual objects" read one. Another said, simply, "The Predator".
The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic boarding school, as he was escorted away by police. He is suspected of sexually abusing dozens of female students – most of them orphans from poor families – over the course of several years.