Draft Criminal Code News Today

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Premarital s*x would be punishable by up to a year in jail under a new criminal code that the Indonesian Parliament is expected to approve, according

{title} - Premarital sex punishable in Indonesia: The proposed criminal law overhaul could affect millions in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country, including heterosexual couples who might face jail for having sex outside wedlock or having an affair. 

Indonesia's parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that will penalise premarital sex with a punishment of up to one year in jail.

The adoption of the principle of restorative justice would make criminal law more humane, Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej ...

Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej urged the public to understand the basic nature of criminal law that essentially restrained ...

Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, has listed three reasons why the Draft Criminal Code needs to be ratified without ...

The Law and Human Rights Ministry conducted online and offline dissemination of information on the Draft Criminal Code to garner inputs and identify ...

The Draft Criminal Code employs new criminal law paradigms of corrective, restorative, and rehabilitative justice, according to the Law and Human Rights ...

The Law and Human Rights Ministry has dismissed allegations that inputs from the public were not sought and citizens were not involved in the formulation of ...