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Indonesia's sweeping reforms to its colonial-era criminal code have been denounced as a crackdown on civil liberties and political freedoms.

Analysis: the moralistic aspects of the new criminal code risk obscuring wider concerns about a stifling of protest and criticism of the state

While international attention has fallen on the ban on extramarital sex, others are concerned Indonesia's new criminal code could be used to silence government critics and civil liberties.

Share to Gab (Photo : AK Rockefeller/Flickr/CC) Boko Haram is more deadly than ISIS, a report by Institute of Economics & Peace says An Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group raised funds by using fake charity boxes in various places according to Indonesia police. A group of Indonesian police discovered that Jamaah Islamiyah, a terrorist group with links to the Al-Qaeda network raised funds by deploying fake charity boxes in various locations. On Dec. 9, the authorities unveiled their discovery that t...

Public order policemen keep watch at the Tanah Abang textile on May 22, 2020, in Jakarta, Indonesia. | Getty Images/Ed Wray A terrorist group, which wants to establish an Islamic state in Southeast Asia and was behind the 2002 Bali bombing, recently installed 13,000 charity boxes at marketplaces across the Muslim-majority country of Indonesia to trick people into funding its activities, police found. The archipelago’s national police on Wednesday disclosed that the Jamaah Islamiyah terroris...

Indonesian Terrorists Use Charity Boxes to Collect Fund 12/12/2020 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – One of Indonesia’s terrorist groups has deployed charity boxes at marketplaces throughout Indonesia, with the hope to trick the unsuspecting shoppers into giving money that would fund the group’s terror activities, according to Indonesian police. On December 9, the National Police revealed the discovery, after questioning 24 members from Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) arrested in the Oc...