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Indonesian police have charged 13 people after disturbing images of alleged abuse involving young children at a daycare centre sparked nationwide outrage. Officials disclosed this on Monday.
Police raided Little Aresha, a daycare facility in Yogyakarta on Java island, last Friday after receiving a report from a former employee.
CCTV footage widely shared on social media reportedly showed children, most of them under two years old, lying on the floor in diapers with their hands and feet tied with rags.
Police said the footage was authentic. Investigators also said they found 20 children crammed into a room measuring about 3 by 3 metres.
Yogyakarta police chief Eva Guna Pandia said 13 suspects had been arrested so far. Those detained include 11 caregivers, the school head and the head of the foundation that operated the centre.
They are expected to face multiple charges, including child neglect, while authorities said more charges could follow as investigations continue.
Police said some suspects told investigators the children were restrained to stop them from disturbing others.
Detective Riski Adrian said the suspects also claimed the centre was understaffed and lacked enough workers to bathe and dress the children.
According to police, the daycare had about 100 children enrolled, with more than half believed to have suffered mistreatment.
A parent, Noorman Windarto, said he was shocked after another parent called him on Friday, urging him to pick up his two-year-old son.
He later learned from police that the child, who had attended the centre since he was three months old, was among those allegedly tied up.
Windarto said he and his wife were devastated, adding that the caregivers had appeared gentle, soft-spoken and religious.
“My heart was shattered,” the 42-year-old civil servant said.
“My wife cried. Most of them (caregivers) were women, and their body language was so tender, so soft-spoken and appeared to be religious.”
He said he paid about 1.1 million rupiah monthly for each of his two children to attend the centre, which has since been shut down.
He also recalled that his older daughter, now six, had sometimes returned home with bruises, which staff had blamed on play elsewhere.
Windarto said his son had been repeatedly hospitalised with pneumonia and he now feared it could be linked to being forced to sleep unclothed on a cold floor.
He said those responsible should face the maximum punishment.
Under Indonesia’s child protection law, the suspects face up to five years in prison and fines of up to 100 million rupiah if convicted
