{"id":50956,"date":"2022-12-07T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/indonesias-sex-morality-laws-are-just-one-part-of-a-broader-chilling-crackdown-on-dissent"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:18:11","slug":"indonesias-sex-morality-laws-are-just-one-part-of-a-broader-chilling-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50956","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia\u2019s sex \u2018morality\u2019 laws are just one part of a broader, chilling crackdown on dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the moralistic aspects of the new criminal code risk obscuring wider concerns about a stifling of protest and criticism of the state<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/share-your-views-on-indonesias-new-laws-criminalising-sex-outside-marriage\">Share your views on Indonesia\u2019s new laws criminalising sex outside marriage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/indonesia-passes-legislation-banning-sex-outside-marriage\">new criminal code<\/a> limits the right to protest and participate in the public sphere, threatens the freedom of women and LGBTQ people and represents a trend of vague or \u201crubber\u201d laws that are open to broad interpretation and selective implementation, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>With provisions restoring a ban on insulting the president, state institutions and state ideology, as well as extramarital and premarital sex, the code will come into effect within three years, following Indonesia\u2019s 2024 elections. Insults to a sitting president can lead to up to three years in jail. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/indonesias-sex-morality-laws-are-just-one-part-of-a-broader-chilling-crackdown-on-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the moralistic aspects of the new criminal code risk obscuring wider concerns about a stifling of protest and criticism of the stateShare your views on Indonesia\u2019s new laws criminalising sex outside marriageIndonesia\u2019s new criminal code limit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50981,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions\/50981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}