Watch: BBC tracks down abusive teacher secretly released early

In 2022, Moch Subchi Azal Tsani, known as Bechi, an Indonesian Islamic teacher, was arrested for sexually assaulting a student at his father's school in East Java after a 15-hour police siege involving nearly 1,000 riot officers. His sentence was seven years, but the BBC discovered he was secretly released early by the Ministry of Immigration and Correction due to legal sentence reductions. Bechi is the son of an influential Islamic religious leader; his case sparked national outrage in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country where millions send their children to Islamic boarding schools. The school's license was revoked initially but reinstated by then-President Joko Widodo on grounds that it involved an individual rather than the institution itself. The National Commission on Violence against Women warns of rising sexual violence in Islamic boarding schools and calls for stricter penalties and oversight mechanisms.