Millions may risk jail as Indonesia to outlaw sex outside marriage

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Millions may risk jail as Indonesia to outlaw sex outside marriage
Tom Allard, Agustinus Bea Da Costa

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is poised to pass a new penal code that criminalizes consensual sex outside marriage and introduces stiff penalties for insulting the president’s dignity - a move rights groups criticized as an intrusive assault on basic freedoms.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim majority country and has substantial Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities, but has seen a recent trend towards deeper religious piety and conservative Islamic activism.

The new criminal code is due to be adopted in the next week after parliament and the government agreed a final draft on Wednesday, four parliamentarians told Reuters.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-politics-rights-idUSKBN1W32BV

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Could somebody PLEASE make the so-called "Moral Majority" in the US aware of this and encourage them to immigrate to Indonesia?

[Fishrrman]

"Indonesia is the world’s most populous muslim majority country and has substantial Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities, but has seen a recent trend towards deeper religious piety and conservative islamic activism."

Before you know it -- another radical islamic country run by mullahs.