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Indonesia passes criminal code banning sex outside of marriage

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Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that bans anyone in the country having sex outside marriage and restricts political freedoms.

The new laws won't come into effect for another three years, and it's expected there will be court challenges.

The raft of changes come after a rise in religious conservatism in the Muslim-majority country.

Several groups of mainly young people protested against the laws outside parliament in Jakarta this week.

Under the new laws - which will also apply to foreigners visiting Bali and other Indonesian holiday destinations - unmarried couples can be jailed for up to a year for having sex.

They are also banned from living together - an act for which people could be jailed for up to six months. Adultery will also be an offence for which people can be jailed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63869078

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Indonesia Celebrates a New Capital Struggling to Take Shape

17 August 2024 at 00:00 BST

Indonesia is set to inaugurate its unfinished future capital city in the middle of a remote jungle on the island of Borneo, as funding struggles, missed deadlines and a change in the country’s leadership weigh on the multibillion dollar project.

President Joko Widodo will declare Nusantara open on Saturday as he marks the country’s independence day. But the ambitious project remains a giant work in progress, with most roads and buildings far from complete, and Jokowi has indicated that Jakarta will still be the official capital when he leaves office in October.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... take-shape



Credit: Muhammad Fadli/Bloomberg

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In Indonesia, Local Elections Have Global Stakes
by Joe Mathews
November 26, 2024

Introduction:

(Zócalo ) When his term expired in 2022, the regent of West Seram, a local jurisdiction in Indonesia’s Maluku province, couldn’t run for reelection.

Article 18 of Indonesia’s constitution guarantees local governments autonomy and the right to choose their leaders by election. But there was no vote to choose this new regent.

Instead, Indonesia’s national government quietly installed a military brigadier general, Andi Chandra As’aduddin, to interim leadership through November 2024. He had been serving as a bureau head in the national intelligence agency (known as BIN) in Central Sulawesi—1,000 kilometers away.

This audacious case of cawe-cawe, the Javanese word for political meddling, was neither accidental nor extraordinary. To the contrary, it is part of a deliberate strategy by Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian national government. The goal: to undermine the local control that has been the most cherished feature of the world’s fourth most populous country’s quarter-century-old democracy.

In the past four years, Indonesia’s national home ministry has maneuvered to install more than 170 loyalists, drawn from the national police, military, and intelligence agencies, as interim leaders of local regions.

Read more here: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ind ... -stakes/

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How have the courts not intervened?!?

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Indonesia: President calls protests 'treason and terrorism'

https://www.dw.com/en/indonesia-preside ... a-73825108