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An Australian tradie who spent a month behind bars after an alleged drunk and naked rampage while on a surfing holiday in a conservative Indonesian province is on his way home after being deported.

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, had been in an Indonesian prison cell since late April after he was accused by police of drunken attacks on multiple people in the deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh, including a fisherman who suffered serious leg injuries.

The tradie from Queensland's Sunshine Coast was released from prison on Tuesday after he went through a restorative justice process, apologised for the attack and agreed to pay compensation to the fisherman. 

That allowed him to avoid going to court and facing a possible charge of assault that could have landed him up to five years in prison.

He spent three nights at an immigration detention centre before he was deported on Saturday. 

Risby-Jones gave a smile and a thumbs up for the cameras as he was escorted by immigration through Soekarno-Hatta international airport for his flight home.