Brunei to cane, jail foreigner 14 months for sexual harassment


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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/Asia News Network): The Magistrate’s Court on Thursday (Jan 12) sentenced a 43-year-old Indonesian man to 14 months‘ imprisonment and one stroke of the cane for sexually harassing a local woman at work.

Nanang Prasetyo Handoko pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual harassment of his victim, a general helper at a company in the Lambak Kanan industrial area, in 2019, 2020 and 2022, where he had also worked.

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