Indonesia's Parliament votes to ban sex outside of marriage

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage and insulting the president and state institutions.

Once in force, the bans will affect foreign visitors as well as citizens. They’re part of an overhaul of the country’s criminal code that has been in the works for years. The new code also expands an existing blasphemy law and keeps a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia’s six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. The code still needs approval from the president, and the government says it will not be fully implemented for several years.

The amended code says sex outside marriage is punishable by a year in jail and cohabitation by six months, but adultery charges must be based on police reports lodged by a spouse, parents or children.

Citizens could also face a 10-year prison term for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism.

https://apnews.com/article/religion-indonesia-government-and-politics-68f35819346c5c5b2103e8b9979b51df

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good luck with enforcing no sex outside marriage!

[sdfernando]

2. Way to kill your tourism industry. /nt

[Kablooie]

3. I'll bet our friends in the other party will want to try this in years to come.

The Christian extremists are salivating over this kind of power.

Of course they will all expect to break this law constantly but don't expect to get caught.

[DemocraticPatriot]

4. Can we ban sex inside marriage for Republicans?

Or maybe forced sterilization for Republican men, so we can prevent abortions???


IMHO, if we polled these questions, I think we would see significant support for such policies...