{"id":150348,"date":"2018-01-31T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T04:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150348"},"modified":"2018-01-31T23:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T04:17:12","slug":"revisions-to-indonesia-law-could-outlaw-sex-outside-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/31\/revisions-to-indonesia-law-could-outlaw-sex-outside-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisions to Indonesia law could outlaw sex outside marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150351\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/15833066833_bda1445390_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150351\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/15833066833_bda1445390_z.jpg\" alt=\"Indonesia's Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage. (Photo by Everyone Sinks Starco\/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/15833066833_bda1445390_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/15833066833_bda1445390_z-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indonesia&#8217;s Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisisinbalitimur\/15833066833\/in\/photolist-q87B9V-qbMjG7-qxe5NV-8MhKwR-a7b3Bi-gzG8r9-cTdY8d-ftpGj-dNEQzF-9Xc9bh-fQ23jp-92MWTF-in3Yo9-8rGwx9-bXices-c3E93q-fxAXTJ-iCM3Qw-bTxCJr-eUedXt-iCPr8A-kZzX2D-cmgCvq-ceZEg5-W7ehMM-cmgC1A-bYZ4zb-fQMd6B-br7obA-scd65-in1YYb-6FTShH-c3E6VQ-in3EeL-in2q6M-cTm2TE-4GPJq4-5i5tYm-T5f4ou-bXiciE-neGzdu-fQiRMw-iCKMic-bXic9S-8TbP3B-aQd6si-in3A1p-gePUa4-dbRHLT-fzZJmF\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisisinbalitimur\/\">Everyone Sinks Starco\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2014 Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia&#8217;s Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Revisions to Indonesia&#8217;s criminal code being considered by Parliament would allow prison sentences of up to five years for sex between unmarried people. Those changes would also criminalize gay sex.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups and legal experts fear a profound setback to human rights and privacy and are racing to organize opposition.<\/p>\n<p>While that provision has grabbed attention, the revised criminal code also contains changes that could weaken checks and balances in Indonesia&#8217;s young democracy. One article potentially makes criticism of the president defamation and others could be used to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2014 Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia&#8217;s Islamic political parties appear on the cusp &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[262,815,508,2436],"class_list":["post-150348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-indonesia","tag-law","tag-marriage","tag-sex","mauthors-stephen-wright","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}