Jakarta: Indonesian authorities are giving full rein to their anti-Western sentiments in the wake of child rape allegations at the Jakarta International School, introducing new requirements that would all-but force it to shut down.

The alleged rape of a five-year old expatriate boy by a large group of Indonesian cleaning staff in February and March has already prompted a furious bureaucratic response against the school which was founded partly by Australian diplomats and still has an embassy representative on the board.

Jakarta International School.

The ministry shut down the preschool program in April saying it did not have the correct licence, and the immigration department and the religious affairs ministry both conducted raids.

But on Friday, Lydia Freyani Hawadi, Indonesia’s senior public servant in charge of early childhood and non-formal education increased the pressure, said she may not grant a licence for the preschool to be reopened in August unless the principal, classroom teacher and vice principal were sacked “because they were negligent in doing their duty” to protect the children.