"I told them I had been working hard since I was a kid. It's impossible that my bone remains young," he said. "They said, 'You're lying, you're making things up'."
The use of X-rays as an age determinant has since been debunked.
A scathing 2012 Human Rights Commission report found the Australian Government had failed to respect the rights of children - often relying on unreliable wrist X-rays without adequate efforts to seek evidence of age and ignoring what the kids told them, resulting in dozens of children being housed in adult correctional facilities between 2008 to 2011.
Indonesian lawyer Lisa Hiariej has launched an A$103 million ($108.3m) suit against the Australian Government in Jakarta, seeking compensation for Rasid and 114 others.
But the Australian Government states it has sovereign immunity.
Sovereign or state immunity "basically precludes one state or individual from suing another state in the national court of any country", says Ben Saul, a professor of international law at the University of Sydney.
"It could mean that Australia might have violated human rights but you can't sue for that in front of a national court," he said.
That leaves the United Nations Human Rights Committee, whose decisions are non-binding.
"While Australia takes part in the complaints processes, it almost always refuses to comply [with the decision], which indicates that its commitment to human rights is often just window dressing," Saul said.
According to human rights NGO Remedy Australia, there have been 45 cases in which human rights violations by Australia have been found. Six have been remedied.
Sam Tierney from Ken Cush and Associates represents Ali Yasmin, who was 14 when he was convicted and jailed in 2010 for five years in a maximum-security Western Australian prison.
The firm is "examining avenues" to launch an action in the Federal Court seeking compensation for Indonesian children and have noted this week's conditional settlement of the class action against the Australian Government on behalf of detainees at Manus Island for A$70m plus costs.
"We would obviously welcome a similar decision to compensate the Indonesian children for the detention which was wrongly visited on them," Tierney said.
Queensland barrister Mark Plunkett, who represented four Indonesians jailed in adult prisons, wrote a scathing submission to the Australian Senate in 2012 about how authorities failed to properly check their age.
"This loss of childhood and the brutish indifference with which they were treated is deserving of ... exposure and condemnation of those responsible," he wrote in 2012.
"If they were Australian kiddies being treated in Indonesia this way, people would be jumping up and down," Plunkett told AAP this week.
He said the Australian Government "have lost their moral compass".
A number of questions were put to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding compensation for the the victims.
"Australia has advised the [Indonesian] court that, as a sovereign state, its agencies are not subject to the jurisdiction of the court. As such, Australia has requested the court dismiss the proceedings," a spokesperson said.
"It is not appropriate to comment further on matters before the court."
- AAP