{"id":51042,"date":"2022-12-10T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/indonesians-react-to-new-law-outlawing-sex-outside-marriage"},"modified":"2022-12-10T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:00:43","slug":"its-absurd-indonesians-react-to-new-law-outlawing-sex-outside-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51042","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s absurd\u2019: Indonesians react to new law outlawing sex outside marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people in Indonesia share their views on the controversial legislation and what it means for them<\/p>\n<p>The news that Indonesia\u2019s parliament has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/indonesia-passes-legislation-banning-sex-outside-marriage\">passed new legislation outlawing sex outside marriage<\/a> \u2013 as part of a wider overhaul of the country\u2019s criminal code \u2013 has triggered concern from human rights activists and prompted protests in the capital Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Here, six people in Indonesia share their views on the controversial legislation, and what it may mean for their personal lives and those of fellow citizens when it comes into effect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/indonesians-react-to-new-law-outlawing-sex-outside-marriage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people in Indonesia share their views on the controversial legislation and what it means for themThe news that Indonesia\u2019s parliament has passed new legislation outlawing sex outside marriage \u2013 as part of a wider overhaul of the country\u2019s criminal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"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":[41,156,76,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-marriage","category-society","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\/51042","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\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51043,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042\/revisions\/51043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}