Singapore/ Jakarta | Indonesia’s national parliament has approved sweeping changes that include jail sentences for consensual sex between unmarried people in the Muslim-majority country and make criticising the country’s President a crime.
These offences are part of a wide-ranging new draft criminal code that’s been decades in the making, but the public was given just a couple of days notice that all political parties had agreed to the latest version. It was rubber-stamped by parliament on Tuesday.
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Emma Connors was South-east Asia correspondent from October 2019 until mid-2023, based in Jakarta and Singapore. She has previously edited Perspective and Opinion and has written extensively across the AFR and related titles. Connect with Emma on Twitter. Email Emma at emma.connors@nine.com.au
