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Indonesia has handed over the reins of the G20, but it will still play an influential role. Here's why

Indonesia has handed the G20 presidency over to India, following a successful summit in Bali last month.

The Conversation

Indonesia’s sex ‘morality’ laws are just one part of a broader, chilling crackdown on dissent

Analysis: the moralistic aspects of the new criminal code risk obscuring wider concerns about a stifling of protest and criticism of the state

The Guardian - AU

Jailing Indonesians for shark finning in Australian waters doesn't solve the real driver – poverty

Last week, four Indonesian fishermen were convicted for taking shark fins and poaching fish in Australian waters. The four men were spotted off remote Niiwalarra/Sir Graham Moore island in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, more than 150 nautical miles inside Australia’s exclusive economic zone.

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Explosion outside Indonesian police station injures several

A man blew himself up Wednesday outside a police station on Indonesia’s main island of Java in what appeared to be the latest in a string of suicide attacks in the world’s most populous Muslim nation

The Independent UK

Indonesia police say suspect Bandung blast a terrorist attack

The deputy head of Indonesia's anti-terrorism agency said on Wednesday he suspected that a blast at a police station in West Java was carried out by a terrorist group

Reuters

Indonesian suicide bomber leaves note criticising new criminal code

A suspected Islamist militant, angered by Indonesia's new criminal code, killed one other person and wounded at least 10 in a suicide bomb attack at a police station in the city of Bandung on Wednesday, authorities said.

Reuters

U.S. closely monitoring Indonesia's law banning sex outside marriage

The United States is closely monitoring Indonesia's revised law banning sex outside marriage, the State Department said on Tuesday, adding that it is concerned about how the changes could affect the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Reuters

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Setback to rights in Indonesia: New laws to punish sex outside marriage

Indonesia's parliament has approved legislation that will outlaw sex outside marriage. Critics are already calling this a huge setback to rights. It was endorsed by all nine political parties in a sweeping overhaul of the country's criminal code. Rights groups are protesting against the amendments, denouncing them as a crackdown…

France 24

Indonesia passes new criminal code banning sex outside marriage. Here's what effect they may have

For decades, Indonesia has been trying to reform its colonial-era penal code, and, along with a ban on unmarried couples having sex, a raft of changes are coming. We take a look at what is changing and what it might mean for the millions of tourists travelling there.

ABC News

Indonesia passes criminal law banning sex outside marriage with threat of jail

A host of changes to criminal codes in Indonesia now bans sex between unmarried couples, who could face up to a year in prison if caught.

Daily Mirror

Share your views on Indonesia’s new laws criminalising sex outside marriage

We’d like to hear from people living in or who are planning to visit Indonesia what their views are on the country’s new controversial legislation outlawing extramarital sex

The Guardian - UK

For Indonesia's transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solace

Shinta Ratri, an Indonesian transgender woman, taught transgender people at the Al-Fatah Islamic boarding school she founded in 2008 that God didn’t care if you were gay or transgender.

The Conversation

Sex outside marriage banned in Indonesia with anyone caught - including tourists - risking a year in prison

The new law applies in top travel destinations including Bali the islands off Lombok

Manchester Evening News

Explainer: Why is Indonesia's new criminal code so controversial?

JAKARTA: Indonesia's new criminal code ushers in a raft of new laws, including banning sex outside of marriage, insulting the president, and expressing any view that runs counter to state ideology.

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Explainer-Why is Indonesia's new criminal code so controversial?

Indonesia's new criminal code ushers in a raft of new laws, including banning sex outside of marriage, insulting the president, and expressing any view that runs counter to state ideology.

Evening Standard

Indonesia passes law outlawing sex outside of marriage as part of sweeping changes to criminal code

The new criminal code must be signed by the president and it may take three years to come fully into force

Reuters

Magnitude 6.2 quake rattles Indonesia's Bali, Java islands - geophysics agency

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia's Bali and Java islands on Tuesday, the country's geophysics agency said.

WEKU

Indonesia criminalizes adultery, but the law may take up to 3 years to take effect

Indonesia's penal code had languished for decades while legislators in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation struggled with how to adapt its native culture and norms to the criminal code.

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Indonesian parliament approves ban on extra-marital sex

JAKARTA: Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that would outlaw sex outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world's most populous Muslim country.

Al Jazeera

Indonesia passes new criminal code, outlaws sex outside marriage

Controversial changes fuelled protests when they were first proposed in 2019 and could still be challenged in court.

The Independent UK

Adultery a punishable offense in Indonesia's criminal code

Indonesia’s Parliament has passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex

ABC News

Indonesia passes criminal code banning cohabitation between unmarried couples

Indonesia's parliament passes a controversial new criminal code that curbs many personal freedoms, including the right of unmarried couples to live together.

Reuters

Indonesia bans sex outside marriage in new criminal code

Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday banned sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, despite worries the laws may scare away tourists from its shores and harm investment.

Chicago Sun-Times

Heather Mack was ‘directly involved’ in mother’s murder, should stay in jail: feds

A judge is expected to consider a request to release Heather Mack during a hearing Thursday in Chicago. Mack’s attorneys insist she poses no danger to the community and is not a flight risk.

Bangkok Post

Indonesia bill barring extramarital sex gets renewed debate

Indonesian lawmakers are forging ahead with plans to change the nation’s criminal code to effectively outlaw extramarital sex and increase penalties on women who have abortions as part of legislation that sparked violent protests when introduced in 2019.

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