PH (16) was arrested on 24 October 2019 for carrying a small knife in his pocket. Prosecutors sought ten months’ imprisonment for him. The District Court acting as a juvenile court found him guilty of violating Article 2 section (1) on the possession of sharp weapons of the Emergency Law Number 12 Year 1951 and sentenced to four months’ imprisonment on 21 November 2019. The prosecutors appealed the ruling. The Court of Appeal in Jayapura upheld the verdict on 10 December 2019. He walked free on 21 February 2020.
