Australian surfer jailed for drunken rampage in Aceh deported after paying compensation

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones from Queensland, Australia (centre) and his lawyer Idris Marbawi (left) look on as an immigration officer sign his transfer documents at the local immigration office in Meulaboh, Aceh, Indonesia on June 7, 2023. - AP

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP): An Australian surfer who was jailed for attacking several people while drunk and naked in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh will be deported to his country after he agreed to apologise and pay compensation, officials said Wednesday (June 7).

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, from Queensland, was detained in late April on Simeulue Island, a surf resort in West Aceh regency, after police accused him of going on a drunken rampage that left a fisherman with serious injuries.