Sinaga browbeaten at school by other Indonesians who labelled him effeminate


Reynhard Sinaga

JAKARTA: After a shock revelation that Reynhard Sinaga, an Indonesian student who was studying for a PhD in Manchester, was found guilty of sexually assaulting scores of men, and named the most prolific rapist in British criminal history, friends have come forward to reveal his difficult childhood in Jambi.

Born in 1983 as the first son of Saibun Sinaga, a businessman in the plantation and property sectors, he went to a popular Catholic elementary school that was attended by affluent families in Jambi city, the capital of the province of the same name. He studied from 1989 to 1998 before the family moved to Depok, West Java.

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