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View all search resultsThe National Alliance for Criminal Code Reforms has called on President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to open talks with experts from various fields to discuss the Criminal Code bill currently being deliberated at the House of Representatives.
Thursday's hearing at the Constitutional Court (MK) again saw a fierce debate about criminalizing consensual sex outside marriage between unmarried couples, with representatives from the government insisting that casual sex does not constitute a crime.
Experts taking the witness stand at the Constitutional Court argued that allowing extramarital sex between unmarried couples and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) sexual activities might turn Indonesia into an uncivilized nation, in a controversial judicial review that seeks to criminalize both consensual extramarital sex and homosexual sex acts.
House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal affairs has backed the government's draft revision of the Criminal Code that retains articles banning communism, saying the regulation is important to protect national ideology Pancasila.
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