Australia is now demanding an answer from Indonesia.
The 23-year-old man was earlier this year on vacation on the island of Bali when he was found dead. Four weeks later, the remains were sent home to Australia and a forensic pathologist made the gruesome discovery.
They called us to ask if we knew that his heart had been kept on Bali, says the man's mother to Australian Channel 9.
Just when I thought I couldn't be more devastated, I got another kick in the stomach.
An Indonesian forensic expert who performed the initial autopsy on Bali claims that there have been no irregularities.
For forensic reasons, his heart was tested and kept when the family repatriated the body, he says to The Sydney Morning Herald.
