Indonesia is regarding to catapult itself even further back into the Middle Ages: Now extramarital sex is being banned in the Pacific state!
The corresponding law is to be passed by the parliament in Jakarta on December 15th. It will then also apply to vacationers on the popular island of Bali.
▶︎ Called: All vacationers and 276.4 million Indonesians are only allowed to have sex if they are married. Violators might face up to a year in prison, the draft law says.
The plan would also criminalize homosexuality nationwide. Because gay marriage does not exist in predominantly Muslim Indonesia.
In the particularly fundamentalist region of Aceh, gays, lesbians and queer people have been publicly punished with canes for their love under Sharia law for years.
A man is flogged in Aceh for allegedly having sex with another man
As early as 2019 there was an attempt to introduce a sex ban for unmarried people, but the project failed following mass protests. But since his re-election in the same year, President Joko Widodo (61) has had an overwhelming majority in parliament.
The law reform might commute death sentences to life imprisonment if those convicted have behaved well for ten years. Except following rape, abortion remains illegal, as does “black magic.”
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch called the project “a major step backwards for Indonesian democracy.”
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