JAKARTA: In one of East Java’s toughest rulings on sexual abuse, the Sumenep District Court has sentenced the head of a local Islamic boarding school (pesantren) to 20 years in prison and chemical castration for assaulting his students.
In a closed-door hearing on Tuesday (Dec 9), a panel of judges led by Andri Lesmana found 51-year-old M. Sahnan guilty of sexually assaulting eight underage students at the Darul Abror Islamic Boarding School in Arjasa district from 2016 to 2024.
