Indonesia to deport Australian surfer jailed for drunken rampage

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones from Queensland (AP)
Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones from Queensland (AP)

An Australian surfer who was jailed for attacking several people while drunk and naked in Indonesia’s Aceh province will be deported to his home country after agreeing to apologise and pay compensation, officials have said.

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, from Queensland, was detained in April on Simeulue Island, a surf resort in the conservative West Aceh regency, after police accused him of going on a drunken rampage that left a fisherman with serious injuries.

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