Indonesia’sJAKARTA: Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters outside Indonesia’s parliament Tuesday, TV reports showed, as thousands demonstrated nationwide over plans to outlaw pre-marital sex, and weaken the anti-corruption agency.
On Tuesday, lawmakers debated a wide-ranging legal overhaul that would criminalise pre-marital sex, restrict sales of contraceptives, make it illegal to “insult” the president and toughen the Muslim majority country’s blasphemy laws. The pullback came as the Australian embassy in Jakarta issued a fresh travel advisory, warning that the legislation could put unmarried foreign tourists in the crosshairs.The mooted changes could affect millions, including gay and heterosexual couples who might face jail for having sex outside wedlock, or having an affair.
Updating Indonesia’s criminal code, which dates back to the Dutch colonial era, has been debated for decades and appeared set to pass in 2018 before it fizzled.
Thank god we are still more free here in Malaysia.
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