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View all search resultsSome believe that the new regulation will help prevent teenage pregnancies, which bear serious health consequences for the mothers and baby. However, many have expressed concerns that it will instead promote extra-marital sex among students in the country.
Ostensibly, even though the Indonesian criminal-reform bill is radical and goes against many of the values of freedom of speech and liberty venerated by many Indonesians, it is still not enough for the extremists, who want more and harsher punishments for immorality/deviant behavior.
The dissertation hinges on the term milk al-yamin (what one's right hand possesses), which has been traditionally interpreted to mean household slaves. Several verses in the Quran allow men to have sexual intercourse with “what [their] right hand possesses" in addition to their wives.
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