Other changes to Indonesian law that have been listed in the bill include making it illegal to criticise the president , spread communist ideology, making it illegal for couples who aren't married to live together, banning the display of contraception to a minor, curbing access to abortion and criminalising fake news, bestiality and black magic.
Embassies in Jakarta are considering issuing fresh travel warnings to their nationals if the laws pass.The legal changes were the result of a growing "moral panic" and increasing conservatism in the majority Muslim country, Lindsey said, that had also snared gay and lesbian couples and other minority groups.
Human Rights Watch Indonesia researcher Andreas Harsono said he believed the laws would be passed though "I hope I am wrong. We are lobbying multiple parties to try and stop this". If passed, he said, it would be a couple of years before the laws were enforced. "I don’t think these legislators understand that although these laws largely won’t be applied to foreigners, they don’t get that it will have an effect on tourism."
In Denpasar, British tourist Rose Hughes and her boyfriend Jake Rodgers - who are on holidays from Norwich - said the legal changes would put her off returning to Bali.Amilia Rosa
Thought they would b to Drunk to have sex in Bali
If you don’t like foreign law, just don’t go there. Bali is an over rated dump anyway.
Stuffed up. Can’t win. Don’t go there. Sink the place
Don’t go to the filthy place. Full of booze drugs and prostitution. Japan is just as affordable and beautiful
Yall westerners and tourist wont get jail cause this fucked up law only applied for the locals like us
Plenty of alternatives to Bali 😣
Floggin’ should be enough. Perpetrators to flog each other, of course. Visitindo visitindonesia_
Do the Indonesians see same sex couples as married? Tourism will be affected. Watch Indonesia put their hands out for more AID money.
Bali is just blatantly trying to kill their tourism industry
You mean heterosexuals are going to find out what life is like for homosexuals? Oh, the horror
Take plenty of condoms so you can hide the evidence
PetraAu Nice channeling of the Daily Telegraph
Prufrockery Bring back the mushroom omelets & nobody will be thinking of sex🤭
Australians will need to mindful of blackmail and wrongful accusations. No ambition to ever go there again.
MattBrun 😳
Wow.. That's drastic measures.
PetraAu No Dicks in Bali Bellies
Islam 🤷🏻♂️
Really !! Do they really want to lose their tourist dollars ? How are they going to police these new laws ?
Less bogan pregnancies.
Bali will go broke within 12 months. Got to love the radicals.
They should educate 'un/married' Indonesian women beforehand.
Does unmarried include single? So uhh..
It's doubtful that the authorities would target tourists if this legislation is passed, unless tourists were having sex in public. Nevertheless it's another reason to avoid Bali and its draconian Indonesian government.
Really? Just Aussies? Blimey, must be as popular there as we Brits are at Eurovision.
It either won’t happen, or Bali will be exempt or the hotels Westerners frequent will be ignored (and that probably applies to all big cities in Indonesia). Its their govt running distraction and temporarily quieting their religious whackos. Too much money in tourism up there.
How would they monitor copulation traffic, cameras?
Interesting.. surely the purpose for most Aussies who go to Bali in droves is not to visit the temples
Draconian, kinda like anti abortion?
Only unmarried Aussies?
I’ve never really wanted to Bali but that’s a coffin nailer.
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