In 2023 the federal court ordered $27.5m compensation for an initial estimated 220 Indonesian children wrongly detained, but that number has now doubled

The Australian government has revealed that another 200 Indonesian children may have been wrongly detained as adult people smugglers, almost double the number initially thought.

Late in 2023, the federal court ordered $27.5m in compensation for an estimated 220 Indonesian children who were wrongly detained as adult people smugglers between 2010 and 2012.