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Indonesia's Parliament has unanimously passed a revision of the country's penal code that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as ...

“Finalizing this process demonstrates that even 76 years after the Dutch Criminal Code was adopted as the Indonesian Criminal Code, it is never too late to produce laws on our own,” Laoly said. It restores a ban on insulting a sitting president or vice president, state institutions and the national ideology. Opponents said it contained articles that discriminated against minorities and that the legislative process lacked transparency. President Joko Widodo is widely expected to sign the revised code in light of its extended approval process in Parliament. But even without the president’s signature, it automatically takes effect after 30 days unless the president issues a regulation to cancel it. But under the new code, the death penalty has a probationary period.

Indonesia's parliament voted Tuesday to ban citizens and foreigners from having sex before they are married in the most notable addition to its criminal ...

He said changes to the new Indonesian laws are dangerous. Or you may create one on the Disqus system. But a government official said the new laws will not be in place for several years. Indonesia’s leaders tried to update the nation’s criminal law in 2019. Civil rights organizations criticized the new laws as overly broad and unclear. But Widodo asked lawmakers to delay the vote after nationwide protests. The country has been independent since 1945 but Dutch administrators wrote many of the nation’s laws. But the changes add exceptions already provided in a 2004 Medical Practice Law, for women with life-threatening medical conditions and rape, provided that the fetus is less than 12 weeks old. - Click on one image and a box appears. Insults to a sitting president could lead up to three years in jail. He noted that enforcement measures “must be worked out” and could not be done in one year. Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday voted for new laws to ban sex outside of marriage.

Terror experts say the attack could be the work of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a pro-ISIS terror group. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The attack also serves as a warning to the police that they will never stop attacking them,” he told The Straits Times. The deputy head of Indonesia’s anti-terrorism agency, Mr Ibnu Suhendra, had told Reuters the police station blast was carried out by a terrorist group. “The government strongly condemns any act of terrorism, whatever the motive is, because it is contrary to human values. This action clearly cannot be tolerated, whatever the reason,” she said in a statement. The police is working swiftly,” he added. Local channel Metro TV cited residents as saying there had been a loud explosion, while Kompas TV – another local channel – showed footage of the damage at the entrance of the Astana Anyar police station in Bandung and closed roads in the area.

JAKARTA/BANDUNG: Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday (Dec 7) that two people were killed and several others wounded when a suspected militant carrying ...

He said JAD had carried out similar attacks in Indonesia. Advertisement

The deputy head of Indonesia's anti-terrorism agency said on Wednesday he suspected that a blast at a police station in West Java was carried out by a ...

Amendment of country's penal code also prohibits promotion of contraception, bans defamation of president and state institutions, and expands existing ...

"Finalizing this process demonstrates that even 76 years after the Dutch Criminal Code was adopted as the Indonesian Criminal Code, it is never too late to produce laws on our own," Laoly said. A previous revised code was poised for passage in 2019, but President Widodo urged lawmakers to delay a vote amid mounting public criticism that led to nationwide protests in which tens of thousands of people participated. It restores a ban on insulting a sitting president or vice president, state institutions and the national ideology. President Joko Widodo is widely expected to sign the revised code in light of its extended approval process in Parliament. But even without the president's signature, it automatically takes effect after 30 days unless the president issues a regulation to cancel it. But under the new code, the death penalty has a probationary period.

A suicide bomber wounded three officers in an attack on a police station in Indonesia's West Java province on Tuesday, police said.

Police said the father was the leader of a local affiliate of Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Anshorut Daulah. The current penal code is a Dutch colonial legacy. Television reports showed white smoke billowing from the building and people running in panic following a loud bang.

Three policemen are seriously injured as a suicide bomber blows himself up inside the compound of a police station in Indonesia , a police officer says.

The blast occurred at 8:20 a.m. at the police station in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung during a morning assembly in the front yard after the man entered the station and pointed a knife at the officers, according to Bandung Police Chief Aswin Sipayung. A policeman was killed and eight others were injured Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the compound of a police station on Indonesia's Java Island, a police officer said.

Indonesia's new criminal code outlawing sex outside marriage and potentially curbing free speech will apply to citizens and foreigners in the country, ...

The suicide bomber is believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State-inspired group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD).

Those attacks were perpetrated by three families, who also attached suicide vests to their young children, and killed at least 30 people. "Suddenly I heard the sound of an explosion ... Advertisement

JAKARTA -- A wide-ranging law passed in Indonesia curbing political and sexual freedom is drawing harsh criticism, as it is viewed as a threat to the.

The revised criminal code which has been approved this week by the Indonesian parliament is getting the kind of publicity rarely given to arcane changes in another country's legal system. Headlines around the world are warning tourists visiting Indonesia ...

"This is one of the most dangerous part of the new criminal code. This originated in the idea that customary law, known in Indonesia as adat, which still governs some aspects of life in parts of the country, should be incorporated to prevent conflicts between it and the official criminal code. It is not about your sex life, they have been writing, but our civil rights. Evi Mariani, at the public journalism group Project Multatuli, has posted her concern on Twitter about the threat to journalists from article 263, which stipulates a four-year prison sentence for anyone found guilty of spreading news which is suspected of being false and causing public disturbances. The revised criminal code which has been approved this week by the Indonesian parliament is getting the kind of publicity rarely given to arcane changes in another country's legal system. Human rights groups have identified 17 articles which they believe threaten the freedoms won since the return to democratic rule in the 1990s.

Planning a Bali holiday? Here's what we know about the new laws and what they mean for travellers and the LGBTQI+ community.

He also said that Bali has long had a thriving gay scene in the areas popular for tourists. Harsono said it could result in authorities asking hotels and villas for bribes to look the other way. Same-sex marriage is not recognised in Indonesia and LGBTQI+ people have long been victimised for their sexual identity. Yet it’s unlikely the laws banning sex outside marriage and cohabitation will be enforced broadly, according to Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch. “That is the most possible scenario where we’ll see the laws enforced.” The laws will also not come into force for another three years.

JAKARTA: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's West Java province on Thursday (Dec 8), the country's geophysics agency (BMKG) said, ...

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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's West Java province on Thursday, the country's geophysics agency (BMKG) said, prompting residents in areas near ...

Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Tremors were also felt in the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas, Reuters witnesses said. The quake, with an epicentre 22 km (13.67 miles) from the city of Sukabumi, had no potential to trigger a tsunami and struck at a depth of 104 km, the agency said.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong and deep earthquake shook Indonesia's capital and other parts of the main island Java on Thursday but there were no immediate ...

In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The country of more than 270 million people is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin known as the “Ring of Fire.” It also

Last month, a shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Cianjur, triggering landslides and collapsing buildings.

The quake struck at 07:50 a.m. That tremor was the deadliest in the archipelago nation since a 2018 quake and resulting tsunami killed more than 4,000 people on the island of Sulawesi. It said there was a low likelihood of casualties or damage following the quake, which struck at a depth of 123 kilometres (76 miles).

The Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code on December 6, 2022, containing provisions that seriously violate international human rights law and ...

[interpreted](https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/18/indonesia-draft-criminal-code-disastrous-rights) to include hukum adat (customary criminal law) and Sharia (Islamic law) regulations at the local level. Articles 463-464 provide that a woman who aborted her pregnancy can be sentenced for up four years in prison (exceptions include a case where a woman is a victim of the crime of rape or sexual violence that causes pregnancy whose gestational age does not exceed 14 weeks; or a case where there are indications of a medical emergency). Anyone who attempts to persuade a person to be a non-believer in a religion or belief can be prosecuted and jailed, a serious setback to protecting freedom of religion and belief in Indonesia. Article 412 provides that couples who live together “as husband and wife” without being legally married can be sentenced to six months in prison. Article 304 states that if a believer becomes a non-believer, that is apostasy and that anyone who attempts to persuade a person to be a non-believer is committing a crime. Article 190 states that anyone who seeks to replace Pancasila as the state ideology will be sentenced up to five years in prison. The law contains dozens of other articles on online and offline criminal defamation, making it possible for anyone to report anyone else for criminal defamation. “Passage of this criminal code is the beginning of an unmitigated disaster for human rights in Indonesia,” Harsono said. Articles in the new code violate the rights of women, religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and undermine rights to freedom of speech and association. Moreover, articles in the law maintain the criminalization of abortion with some exceptions, and now also criminalize distributing information about contraception to children and providing information about obtaining an abortion to anyone, which especially harms women and girls. “In one fell swoop, Indonesia’s human rights situation has taken a drastic turn for the worse, with potentially millions of people in Indonesia subject to criminal prosecution under this deeply flawed law.” When Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo visits Europe next week for a summit between heads of government of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), EU leaders should strongly voice their opposition to the new law, said Human Rights Watch.

Patek was serving a 20 year sentence for his role in the 2002 attacks that killed 202 people from 21 countries.

Patek was also convicted over other charges related to a series of bombings in Jakarta in 2000 that targeted Christmas Eve church services and killed 19 people. The Bali attacks were the worst in Indonesian history and led to a crackdown on hardline groups such as JI. Indonesia has released on parole Umar Patek, convicted for his role in the Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people in 2002, after he completed just more than half of his sentence.

This deeply flawed new criminal code is likely to meet with stiff opposition from lawyers and activists. This might include protests and even court ...

This deeply flawed new criminal code is likely to meet with stiff opposition from lawyers and activists, including protests, even though the new code bans “unannounced demonstrations”. The new code contains provisions that criminalise insulting public officials, including the president and members of the government. The code introduces increased restrictions on religion and religious life that will strengthen and expand the bases on which minority religious groups can be persecuted. This is a flagrant attempt to reinstate those provisions, empowering the government to crack down on its opponents. It is also feared the new law will be used to target gay and lesbian people, who cannot marry under Indonesian law. One positive change in the new code is the introduction of a probationary period for death sentences. The second is even more dangerous for journalists. This means they cannot apply unless a close member of the family – a husband or wife, a parent or child – report the matter to the police. In other words, an offence is committed if the official is insulted, even if the allegations are true. There is more concern about the impact of these provisions on Indonesians, especially young couples. One punishes extramarital sex with up to a year in prison, and the other says couples who live together without being legally married also face jail. In fact, the last time legislators tried in 2019, it triggered the largest public protests in Indonesia since the 1998 fall of former president Soeharto.

Foreigners in Indonesia should not worry about getting prosecuted for potentially breaching the country's new criminal code that penalizes sex outside of ...

Authorities say there is a low likelihood of casualties or damage following the quake, which struck at a depth of 123km. Read more at straitstimes.com.

No reports of damage to houses or casualties,” said Wawan Setawan, a disaster agency official in Cianjur told AFP. Save the Children warned this week that evacuees face a “ticking time bomb” of disease and infection due to poor living conditions. “We have yet to receive reports of damage caused by the earthquake”, Imran Wardhani, an official in Sukabumi, said soon after the tremor. “The epicentre of the earthquake is in Sukabumi, so it was only lightly felt in Cianjur. The USGS said there is a low likelihood of casualties or damage following the quake, which struck at a depth of 123km. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was of magnitude 5.8.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's legislation banning sex outside marriage represents a major new threat to the LGBTQ community's rights in the conservative country, ...

"I'm not pessimistic about Indonesia's future progress as I am trying to stay strong. "Before the new criminal code, it was already bad. Advertisement A big nail," Dede Oetomo, an activist with the LGBTQ rights group GAYa NUSANTARA, told AFP. Although it was not systematic, but it can happen," Oetomo said.

Additionally, 'cohabitation', that is: the act of living together and having sexual relations without being married, is also attached to the frenzy of the ban.

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The Indonesian government on Wednesday released the bomb maker of the 2002 attacks on the resort island of Bali, who was on parole after having served over ...

During their meeting, he cried and kissed her feet and begged for forgiveness. The Australian government has also voiced its objection to Patek's release. In September, he met with a widow of one of the Balinese victims in the Bali bombings.