‘I want to know why he died’: family seeks justice over Australia’s jailing of Indonesian child

Erwin Prayoga was wrongly incarcerated at 14 by Australia’s judicial system in a shocking miscarriage of justice that spans law enforcement and senior levels of government. Illustration: Ben Sanders/The Guardian

Two dates are carved into the wood block marking Erwin Prayoga’s makeshift grave.

For passersby on Rote Island, one of Indonesia’s most impoverished regions, the numbers hold no great significance – another boy from a poor family, dead at 16.