A new law is expected to be passed by the end of the month that will ban non-marital sex and cohabitation of non- married couples from being together. Visitors would be subject to the law as well.
The law would prohibit views that are offensive to the president or government institutions. Up to three years of jail would be the punishment for the "unlawfully" actions.
Decades in the making, the new criminal code is expected to be passed on Dec. 15, Indonesia’s deputy justice minister, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, told Reuters.
“We’re proud to have a criminal code that’s in line with Indonesian values,” he told Reuters in an interview.
The draft has the support of some Islamic groups in a country where conservatism is on the rise, although opponents argue that it reverses liberal reforms enacted after the 1998 fall of authoritarian leader Suharto.
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.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has hundreds of regulations at the local level that discriminate against women, religious minorities, and LGBT people.
It was the conclusion.
The message that this sends is that married heterosexual couples and extremists should not go to Indonesia.
A non- married couple wouldn't be able to share a room. Marriage certificates are being requested by hotels before you can check in.
Politicians care more about what happens between two consenting adults than they do about real issues impacting the country and the world. This applies to other countries as well.
One of the more liberal countries when it comes to drinking and wearing clothes is Indonesia.
Is the government in favor of jailing tourists for up to a year for having sex in the country if they're not married?
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