The new ‘morality’ laws in Indonesia apply to foreigners as well as Indonesians.
The Indonesian government has passed a new criminal code that bans sex before marriage, insulting the president and speaking out against state ideology.to live together, applying to both Indonesians and foreigners alike. Sex before marriage is punishable with up to a year in prison, while cohabitation can result in a six-month jail sentence. It also criminalises the promotion of contraception while maintaining abortion as a crime.
“What we’re witnessing is a significant blow to Indonesia’s hard-won progress in protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms over more than two decades. The fact that the Indonesian government and the House of Representatives agreed to pass a penal code that effectively stamps out many human rights is appalling,” says Usman Hamid, Amnesty International’s Indonesia executive director.
“Outlawing sex outside marriage is a violation to the right to privacy protected under international law. Such ‘morality’ provisions could even potentially be misused to criminalise victims of sexual assault or to target members of the LGBTI community. Consensual sexual relationships should not be treated as a criminal offence or a violation of ‘morality’.
Only a person’s partner, parents or children can report them for extramarital sex; for the blasphemy laws, legislators said they had added defences for free speech and protests made in the “public interest”. The ban on insults to the president and vice president, directly and through audio visual or digital means, is punishable by up to 4.5 years in jail.have been attempted. The first was in 2019, but international protests made lawmakers delay the vote.
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