Indonesia’s Parliament Bans S3x Outside Marriage
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Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that would outlaw s3x
outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the
world’s most populous Muslim country.
After the new criminal code
was endorsed by all nine parties in a sweeping overhaul of the legal code,
deputy house speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad banged the gavel to signal the text was
approved and shouted “legal.”
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A revision of Indonesia’s criminal code, which stretches back to the
Dutch colonial era, has been debated for decades.
Rights groups
had protested against the amendments, denouncing a crackdown on civil
liberties and political freedoms, as well as a shift towards fundamentalism in
Muslim-majority Indonesia, where secularism is enshrined in the constitution.
“However, it is time for us to make a historical decision on the penal
code amendment and to leave the colonial criminal code we inherited
behind.”
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A provision in the text, which still needs to be signed by the
president, states the new criminal code will be applicable in three years.
Some of the most controversial articles in the newly passed code
criminalize extra-marital s3x, as well as the cohabitation of unmarried
couples.
According to the text seen by AFP, illegal cohabitation
will have a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment, and s3x outside of
marriage will be punished with one year in prison.
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