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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A gay Indonesian policeman dismissed from the force because of his sexual orientation has lost his legal fight to be reinstated, after a Central Java court rejected his lawsuit, his lawyers said on Thursday.
Tri Teguh Pujianto, a 31-year-old former police brigadier, was fired in 2018 after 10 years in the job, after police from a different town apprehended he and his partner on Valentine’s Day when they were saying their goodbyes at his partner’s workplace.
Teguh’s lawyers from the non-governmental group Community Legal Aid Institute in a statement said the local administrative court had rejected his suit.
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A gay Indonesian policeman dismissed from the force because of his sexual orientation has lost his legal fight to be reinstated, after a Central Java court rejected his lawsuit, his lawyers have said on Thursday.
Tri Teguh Pujianto, a 31-year-old former police brigadier, was fired in 2018 after 10 years in the job, after police from a different town apprehended he and his partner on Valentine’s Day when they were saying their goodbyes at his partner’s workplace.
Teguh’s lawyers from the non-governmental group Community Legal Aid Institute in a statement said the local administrative court had rejected his suit.
Widodo lays down rules for chemical castration
Punishment will be meted out in a bid to deter child sex abuse in Indonesia
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has issued a government regulation on chemical castration to prevent child sex abuse. (Photo courtesy of Cabinet Secretariat)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has issued a government regulation on when and how chemical castration should be used against sex offenders.
The Cabinet Secretariat said in a statement on Jan. 3 that the regulation, signed last month, allows the use of chemical castration as a punishment for those convicted of committing sex attacks against children.
“Sexual violence against children is an extraordinary crime,” Widodo said.
Schoolchildren take part in a peaceful rally to call for greater state protection on the rights of Indonesian children in Semarang, Central Java in this file photo from December 2015 - Tempo
This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title Jokowi issues provisions on chemical castration for child rapistsMan arrested for alleged child molestation in North Jakarta . Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2021/01/06/jokowi-issues-provisions-on-chemical-castration-for-child-rapists.html.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko Jokowi Widodo has signed off on a government regulation that provides guidelines on a mechanism for the chemical castration of convicted child rapists, after the House of Representative passed a law authorising the punishment in 2016.
Security personnel dismantle Islam Defenders Front (FPI) paraphernalia as they close down the group s headquarters in Petamburan, Central Jakarta, on Dec. 30, 2020. - Antara
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The intensifying crackdown by the authorities on the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) a once-fringe Islamist group that now poses a serious challenge to the administration of President Joko Jokowi Widodo has sparked concerns among prodemocracy activists.
The government continues to step up its pressures on the vigilante group, which has become increasingly political since the 2014 presidential election and the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election during which it spearheaded sectarian campaigns against President Jokowi and his ally, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, who replaced him as Jakarta governor.