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Indonesia's Parliament passes law criminalizing adultery
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Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex. After Tuesday’s passage, the law needs the president’s signature and is given
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Indonesia Set to Pass Controversial New Criminal Code This Month
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Indonesia's Parliament passes law criminalizing adultery
Indonesia's parliament approved Tuesday legislation that would outlaw extra-marital sex while making other sweeping changes to the criminal code – a move critics described as a setback to the country's…
Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex. Sex outside of marriage will be punishable by jail. The code applies
Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex. After Tuesday’s passage, the law needs the president’s signature and is given
By Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen and Angus Watson, CNN Indonesian lawmakers passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten human rights and freedoms in the Southeast Asian country.
Rights groups say Indonesia is taking authoritarian steps after lawmakers passed a new criminal code penalizing consensual sex between unmarried people and criticism of the president.
A newly passed criminal code in Indonesia will make it illegal to criticize the government and severely curtail civil liberties. Rights activists say the new set of laws is a step back towards authoritarian rule.
Indonesia's Parliament unanimously passed a long-awaited revision of the country's penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, prohibits promotion of contraception and bans defamation of the president and state institutions.
The Parliament of Indonesia passed legislation Tuesday fulfilling the nation's years-long effort to outlaw premarital sex and blaspheming the president.
We’d like to hear from people living in or who are planning to visit Indonesia what their views are on the country’s new controversial legislation outlawing extramarital sex
Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that would outlaw sex outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world's most populous Muslim country.
Indonesia's penal code had languished for decades while legislators in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation struggled with how to adapt its native culture and norms to the criminal code.
A newly passed criminal code in Indonesia will make it illegal to criticize the government and severely curtail civil liberties. Rights activists say the new set of laws is a step back towards authoritarian rule.
Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex. Sex outside of marriage will be punishable by jail. The code applies
Indonesian lawmakers passed a revision to its code of laws banning all forms of sex outside marriage for both citizens and foreigners. The package of laws, which was met with criticism from human rights activists, also bans political and religious dissent.
