Indonesia’s authorities on Saturday deported an Australian surfer who apologised for attacking several people while drunk and naked in the deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh.
Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, from Queensland, was detained in late April on Simeulue Island, a surf resort, after police accused him of going on a drunken rampage that left a fisherman with serious injuries.
“Of course I’m pretty emotional, so I’m going to feel bad about it,” Risby-Jones said while waiting for his flight to Melbourne.
He said the fisherman’s relatives forgave him and told him that he was a part of their family now. “I’m welcome to come back and even stay at their house whenever I want,” he said.
![Australian national Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones from Queensland is escorted by immigration officers upon arrival at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/V4LEEA4OWFA2ZOUCRDXUALWSVY.jpg?auth=3bbf1f002184d291c8482d6a7d10c42b0f977afc9b94986371c0c3b1b135e328&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)