{"id":51081,"date":"2022-12-12T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/balis-governor-says-indonesias-ban-on-sex-outside-marriage-poses-no-risk-to-tourists"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:42:33","slug":"balis-governor-says-indonesias-ban-on-sex-outside-marriage-poses-no-risk-to-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51081","title":{"rendered":"Bali\u2019s governor says Indonesia\u2019s ban on sex outside marriage poses no risk to tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island&#8217;s governor Wayan Koster says visitors \u2018would not need to worry\u2019 about changes to the country\u2019s criminal code <\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Bali will not be put at risk by Indonesia\u2019s newly ratified criminal code, the island\u2019s governor said, dismissing concerns that revised laws which include articles criminalising sex outside marriage may scare away tourists from its shores.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s parliament last week <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\">passed the controversial bill<\/a> that also prohibits cohabitation between unmarried couples.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/balis-governor-says-indonesias-ban-on-sex-outside-marriage-poses-no-risk-to-tourists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island&#8217;s governor Wayan Koster says visitors \u2018would not need to worry\u2019 about changes to the country\u2019s criminal code Visitors to Bali will not be put at risk by Indonesia\u2019s newly ratified criminal code, the island\u2019s governor said, dismissing concerns th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[413,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bali","category-indonesia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51081","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51081\/revisions\/51082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}