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Indonesia to penalise sex outside marriage with up to a year in jail

Jakarta: Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that will penalise sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, officials have confirmed.

The legislative overhaul will also ban insulting the president or state institutions and expressing any views counter to Indonesia’s state ideology. Cohabitation before marriage is also banned.

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Student groups demonstrated in 2019 against proposed changes to Indonesia’s criminal code that would outlaw sex outside of marriage.


Decades in the making, the new criminal code is expected to be passed on December 15, Indonesian Deputy Justice Minister Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej said.
“We’re proud to have a criminal code that’s in line with Indonesian values,” he said in an interview.

Bambang Wuryanto, a lawmaker involved in the draft, said the new code could be passed by as early as next week.
The code, if passed, would apply to Indonesian citizens and foreigners, with business groups expressing concerns about what damage the rules might have on Indonesia’s image as a holiday and investment destination.

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.

Critics say minimal changes to the code have been made since then, although the government has in recent months held public consultations around the country to provide information about the changes.

Some changes that have been made include a provision that could allow the death penalty to be commuted to life imprisonment after 10 years of good behaviour.

The criminalisation of abortion, with the exception of rape victims, and imprisonment for “black magic”, remain in the code.
According to the latest draft dated November 24, sex outside marriage, which can only be reported by limited parties such as close relatives, carries a maximum one-year prison sentence.

Insulting the president, a charge that can only be reported by the president, carries a maximum of three years.

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.

Just weeks after Indonesia chaired a successful G20 meeting that saw its position elevated on the global stage, business sector representatives say the draft code sends the wrong message about Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

The changes to the code would be a “huge a setback to Indonesian democracy”, said Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch.

The deputy justice minister dismissed the criticism, saying the final version of the draft would ensure that regional laws adhered to national legislation and that the new code would not threaten democratic freedoms.

A revised version of the criminal code has been discussed since Indonesia declared its independence from the Dutch in 1945.

Source: The Age

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So, everyone is now sick of Russia/Ukraine and is Rushing to buy tons of stock in submersibles? Or something?
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And one of the guy's sons



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was there ever any doubt?

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Skynet wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:19 am
pixel wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:40 am FB_IMG_1687477171765.jpg

I'm here with my humble addition to the submarine tragedy
It was apparently an OLD Logitech controller.

If that controller was made before 2015 I bet it survived the implosion and could be recovered from the sea floor, dried out and used for the next thousand years.

If it was made in the past 8 years, The chances are it imploded on its own before the rest of the sub did.

Everything else may have been compressed to the size of a thimble and the people inside turned into a mist and powder, but the next thing to dive down there should see if they can find the control.
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Skynet wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:19 am
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I'm here with my humble addition to the submarine tragedy
One of my favorite lines from that show :rofl:
ian wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 1:53 pm
Skynet wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:19 am
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I'm here with my humble addition to the submarine tragedy
It was apparently an OLD Logitech controller.
:olol: The memes make it seem like it was a Logitech F310 or F710. I remember those were pretty solid controllers. Having dealt with the software driver whims of Microsoft and Sony, I can understand why they went with ol' reliable here.

A few fucked up things about this whole clusterfuck:



This might've been some ploy to expand oil/gas exploration


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Stupid ass people, stupid ass shit. I feel sorry for the kid that didn't want to go and was forced to. The other four are dumbfucks.

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Shit is going down in France. An African was shot by police, which has led to rioting.










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