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JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Indonesia’s passage of a controversial criminal code this week has grabbed the world’s attention as a setback to democracy and human rights, but the government has defended it as “a middle ground to knit together Indonesia’s diverse society”.
Indonesia on Tuesday adopted a new criminal code that outlaws sex outside marriage and cohabitation, in changes that critics contend could undermine freedoms in the Southeast Asian nation.
U.S. ambassador to Indonesia warns that morality articles in the revised criminal code could be a disincentive for foreign investment.
New criminal code set to pass into law Tuesday also curtails other civic freedoms, rights activists say.
Indonesian lawmakers are soon expected to pass a new criminal code that will criminalize sex outside marriage and outlaw insults against state institutions.