Australia locked up kids from Indonesia: report

Australian Human Rights Commission president Catherine Branson said 180 Indonesians claimed to be under the age of 18 when they arrived in Australia between late 2008 and late 2011, but some were not believed and put in prison.

“The fact is that a significant number of Indonesian children have been incarcerated in adult correctional facilities, including maximum security facilities ... in some cases for very long periods of time,” she said.

Branson, releasing a report on the treatment of the minors, said while obviously young Indonesians — including a boy who claimed to be eight — were sent home, authorities often relied on wrist X-rays to determine their age.

The accuracy of wrist X-rays, an age-profiling tool which compares an individual's bone growth against a standard “atlas” developed in the United States in the 1950s, was now “discredited,” she said.

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