In an exclusive interview, Suryani says she has not let the four-year old out of her sight since the news of the court judgement trickled through to their home in the city of Tegal, 400km from Jakarta.

The Irish embassy in Singapore contacted Suryani with the news of the court ruling last week but she had learned some details of the 120,000 award in local newspapers.

And the Sunday Tribune can also reveal that Rosdiana, the baby broker who sold Tristan Dowse to his adoptive parents Joe and Lala, has been convicted of baby-selling and is serving a nine-year prison sentence. Her daughter Reta, who also took part in the illegal adoption of Tristan, and up to 80 other babies, received an eight-year sentence.

Their role in Tristan's adoption and baby trafficking for other wealthy foreigners was exposed by a Sunday Tribune investigation during which Rosdiana offered to sell a child to our undercover reporter. The coverage prompted the Indonesian authorities to launch their own investigation.

Rosdiana's son Eric is wanted for questioning, but has gone on the run from the authorities.

Suryani fears that local criminals or Rosdiana's relatives may target Tristan, who is now known as Erwin, either for ransom or as an act of revenge.

"I am so worried that someone will kidnap him because of the money. Everyone is calling him the milliondollar child. Every day there are TV cameras at his school and at our home. I spend all my time with him because I am so afraid. I only worry about my son's future, " she said yesterday.

Tristan Dowse hit the headlines in April last year when this newspaper discovered that he had been adopted in Indonesia by Wicklow man Joseph Dowse and his Azerbaijani wife Lala, but abandoned in an orphanage two years later. The couple then left Indonesia to start a new life in Azerbaijan.

In the only interview Joseph Dowse has given, he said that the adoption "hadn't worked out".

In the subsequent court case he said the couple, particularly Lala Dowse, had failed to bond with the child.

After the case was publicised, the Irish government moved to regularise Tristan's situation and tried to have him re-adopted, first by a US couple in Indonesia and then by a Muslim couple based in Ireland.

However an RTE documentary found Suryani, Tristan's natural mother, and they were reunited under the supervision of Indonesian social services. Suryani explained how she was pressurised and deceived by Rosdiana and a nurse at the maternity unit where she gave birth.

Investigations by the Indonesian authorities found she was not paid for the adoption. After a lengthy reunion process they allowed Suryani to take Tristan home to Tegal.

Last month's High Court ruling by Justice MacMenamin has forced Joseph and Lala Dowse to pay for the care of Tristan until he is 18.

The deal which has been agreed by Joseph Dowse will give Tristan 20,000 immediately and a further 350 a month until he is 18. Half of this will be kept in trust until then, at which point he will get a further 25,000.

But Suryani, rather than celebrating, is full of fears and worries. Along with the fear of kidnap, she believes Tristan's citizenship is increasingly becoming a problem. The court cancelled Tristan's adoption and removed his name from the register of foreign adoptions.

However he remains an Irish citizen.

This was a problem when she tried to get him a birth certificate for enrolment in his next school. She was refused. "I want to change Erwin's citizenship. Because for the school I need a birth certificate and all official documents and I don't have any.

When I have tried to get a birth certificate for Erwin they said, 'You can't get a birth certificate for a foreigner, '" Suryani said. Indonesian law does not allow dual citizenship.

Suryani has started looking at houses to buy with the money she will get from the Dowses. Property prices in Tegal are low by Irish standards.

"I've already looked at some houses to buy near my mother's house because it is safer near my family. I saw one I liked which cost approximately 5,000. It is a permanent home made from brick. It's near the main road.

All it needs is for the floors to be put in. It's 10sq m, has two bedrooms and a bathroom with a toilet, " she said.

Suryani wants to keep the remainder of the money in the bank so that she can buy the things Tristan needs while he is growing up. Tristan has been home with his mother since September.

Sechatun, the headteacher at his school, said that although it was obvious at the beginning that the boy had been traumatised, he is adapting well.

"My first impression when I met him was that he was too traumatised to meet new people and get attached. He didn't trust people. But now he is very close with the teachers. He hugs them and is very talkative and tells the teachers about his life with his mum and what they have done at the weekend. What strikes me most is that he is very smart, " she said.

Indonesia is a very religious country and has the highest concentration of Muslims in the world. Sechatun is convinced it is the "will of God" that Tristan and Suryani are together.

"It's a miracle that he found his mother. It is God's will that he was brought back to his mother and is living with her once more within his own people, " she said.

But Tristan had been brought up Christian for the first four years of his life by the Dowses and then in the orphanage, so he has had to learn the Muslim faith. "At first he was in the Christian religion, so he used to ask the teacher about the crucifixion, but he doesn't do that anymore, " said Sechatun.

"He is very good in religion classes. Probably because the Christian religion was taught to him when he was very little he has already forgotten it and has fully accepted the Muslim faith. He also knows now how to pray in the mosque, " she added.

According to the court judgement, Suryani was supposed to receive the first payment within one month of 31 January. She has been asked to travel to Jakarta on Tuesday to meet the Irish ambassador, who will brief her on the judgement and payment details. She says she hopes her life is about to become more comfortable, but is worried about the future. She seldom talks about her past and how she almost lost Tristan.

"Tristan never speaks about the past and I have not told him anything of what happened to me. But I will tell him little by little over time."