Indonesia set to make sex outside marriage punishable by jail

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Indonesia's parliament expected to pass new criminal code that will also make insulting the president or state institutions a crime

Protesters demonstrating in June against Indonesia’s proposed new criminal code, which is set to make sex outside marriage a crime.Protesters demonstrating in June against Indonesia’s proposed new criminal code, which is set to make sex outside marriage a crime.Last modified on Fri 2 Dec 2022 06.16 GMT

Decades in the making, the new criminal code is expected to be passed on 15 December, Indonesia’s deputy justice minister, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, told Reuters.Read more A previous draft of the code was set to be passed in 2019 but sparked nationwide protests. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated at the time against a raft of laws, especially those seen to regulate morality and free speech, which they said would curtail civil liberties.

The criminalisation of abortion, with the exception of rape victims, and imprisonment for “black magic”, remain in the code. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has hundreds of regulations at the local level that discriminate against women, religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ people.

 

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Good luck lovers going to Bali from now on

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And Australia is worried about China. Controlling, fanatical Muslims right on the doorstep..... AlboMP PeterDutton_MP auspol AusPol2022

Why are (religious) conservatives obsessed with sex?

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