Lombok Hotel Staff Struggle to Have Aussie Boss Charged With Sexual Abuse
Jakarta Globe, Fitri R. | November 16, 2010
Mataram. Four residents of a village in West Nusa Tenggara have reported an Australian to the police for alleged pedophilia and sexual assault but their complaints have been rejected.
The locals, from Pandanan village in West Lombok, claimed Paul Robson, 55, the owner of an unnamed hotel in the Senggigi resort area, sodomized and otherwise sexually abused them five years earlier.
It is not known if Robson is still in the country.
Police said they rejected the case because of incomplete paperwork, which they said needed to be in order before they could investigate.
West Nusa Tenggara Police spokesman Adj. Comr. Lalu Wirajaya said that while he could not go into detail, it was a matter of paperwork.
“That’s the common reason for a complaint being rejected,” he said. “But if they complete their paperwork, we’ll accept their report.”
Three of the accusers, two of whom were minors at the time of the alleged assault, claim they were hired by Robson to work as security guards at his hotel.
They said they were called into Robson’s office and asked to strip naked for a “ritual,” during which they were sodomized by the Australian and later paid to keep silent about it.
One of the victims, Sah, said he was 15 at the time and married, and that the repeated sex acts with Robson had caused him to become homosexual.
“I went off women completely and divorced my wife after being with Paul,” he said. “What he did to me ruined my life.”
The fourth accuser, who was 12 at the time of the alleged crime, said Robson had offered to pay his school fees if he allowed the Australian to touch him in “inappropriate places.”
“I felt I had to allow him to do it and I didn’t dare report it to anyone because he threatened me,” he said.
“He also made me sleep with him naked. He said it was a ritual.”
Fauzi Yoyok, a lawyer for the alleged victims, said Robson might have sexually assaulted up to eight men and boys over the past five years.
“This kind of crime has for far too long been tolerated in our community for the sake of tourism, but it’s ruining our younger generation,” he said.
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