A COUPLE who adopted an Indonesian boy and then abandoned him could be ordered to pay for his upkeep until he is 18, it has emerged.

THE GOVERNMENT must put a financial package together to ensure that Tristan Dowse, the child adopted and then abandoned by his Irish father in Indonesia, can stay with his birth mother.

THE Government will seek to compel the adoptive parents of a young boy whom they left in an Indonesian orphanage to pay for his maintenance and upkeep over the past two years.

Dan Buckley

The couple at the centre of the Tristan Dowse adoption case have reportedly vowed to take whatever legal steps are necessary to allow the three-year-old to be re-adopted.

The Irish Government is to send a legal expert to the aid of an Indonesian boy stuck in legal limbo following a failed adoption by an Irish couple.

WHILE I agree with Ann McElhinney (Irish Examiner, April 15) about the appalling treatment of Tristan Dowse, and that cases like his are horrific, it was a pity she went on to vent her biased and inaccurate views on international adoption.

WE were shocked to read about the unfortunate circumstances of young Tristan Dowse in the article by Ann McElhinney (Irish Examiner, April 15).

A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy, originally adopted in Indonesia by an Irishman and his wife, remains in legal limbo this weekend as officials in Dublin and Jakarta continue their efforts to resolve the matter.

THE Irish ambassador to Indonesia is set to travel to Jakarta to meet officials investigating the adoption of Tristan Dowse by an Irish man and his wife.

AdoptionIreland has said it is concerned efforts to have Tristan Dowse readopted, however well meaning, are not in his best interests.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs was aware that three-year-old Tristan Dowse was left in an orphanage by his family a year ago, however the investigation into the legality of the adoption only began last week.