teen on drug charges in Bali

**garry17** · Dec 01 2011, 12:51 AM

After people banging on about how bad the Indonesian legal system is, with several Australians jailed for drugs charges. I would have thought that this teen would get more than a few mention on other threads.

Is it, that this decision

THE NSW teenager jailed in Bali for buying drugs will be home on Saturday, a day earlier than expected.
The 14-year-old’s lawyer Muhammad Rifan told The Daily Telegraph the teen would be released from detention on Saturday morning, and leave Indonesia on the first available flight to Sydney.

The departure is a day earlier than expected, but Indonesian authorities said once the paperwork is signed off on tomorrow, confirming there will be no appeal to the boy’s two-month sentence, he is free to be released the next day.

The teen, from Morisset Park on NSW's Central Coast, is expected to be back home by Saturday night.

He has spent the past two months in prison after being caught buying 3.6 grams of marijuana from a street seller in Kuta, on October 4.

He will be escorted home by his mother and father.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wor...-1226211335525
Would this be because it does not fit the claims of many, that others are so harshly treated?

This boy really got off easily, so all stay silent?

**Uncle Meat** · Dec 01 2011, 02:09 AM

Originally Posted by garry17

This boy really got off easily, so all stay silent?

Got off easy? You must be joking.

It should be an on-the-spot fine, nothing more.

We're talking about pot here, not heroin. LOL

**garry17** · Dec 01 2011, 02:12 AM

Originally Posted by Uncle Meat

Got off easy? You must be joking.

It should be an on-the-spot fine, nothing more.

We're talking about pot here, not heroin. LOL

I talk about comparisons in Indonesian law, not what YOU consider the best penalty.

**Uncle Meat** · Dec 01 2011, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by garry17

I talk about comparisons in Indonesian law, not what YOU consider the best penalty.

OK, in Indonesian "law", maybe he got off easy.

However, that's a good thing. He's an idiot, but I'm happy for him.

Maybe the Indonesians are progressing a bit. Let's hope so.

I can tell you, I would never step foot in their backward hellhole of a country.

**ian** · Dec 01 2011, 04:41 AM

Originally Posted by Uncle Meat

OK, in Indonesian "law", maybe he got off easy.

However, that's a good thing. He's an idiot, but I'm happy for him.

Maybe the Indonesians are progressing a bit. Let's hope so.

I can tell you, I would never step foot in their backward hellhole of a country.

You may think that Indonesian drug laws are backward but that doesnt necassarily make it so, you might to take note that western Australia has recently increased the penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana under 30 grams which may now include 5 years in jail. Morally there is also no argument to be made that Australians or Westerners are somehow morally superior to Indonesians, we could take a few lessons from them and other southeast asian countries.

**Uncle Meat** · Dec 01 2011, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by ian

You may think that Indonesian drug laws are backward but that doesnt necassarily make it so, you might to take note that western Australia has recently increased the penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana under 30 grams which may now include 5 years in jail. Morally there is also no argument to be made that Australians or Westerners are somehow morally superior to Indonesians, we could take a few lessons from them and other southeast asian countries.

Any country that has the death penalty is backward.

No argument.

**Uncle Meat** · Dec 01 2011, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by ian

Morally there is also no argument to be made that Australians or Westerners are somehow morally superior to Indonesians,

Yes, there is.

We don't have the death penalty.

Simple.

**Makedde** · Dec 01 2011, 07:59 PM

He says he is sorry but I bet the second he is home, he goes back to his old, pot smoking ways and his parents accept a few hundred grand from A Current Affair for a tell all interview.

**ian** · Dec 01 2011, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by Uncle Meat

Any country that has the death penalty is backward.

No argument.

Many wouldnt agree with you, in fact a good argument can be made that any country such as Australia which releases rapists and murderers to commit their crimes over and over again is backward.