Indonesia is banning people from having sex outside marriage or even living together. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity.That’s when the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, and its third-largest democracy,“I am scared of being jailed,” said Chika, a 28-year-old busker who commutes each day to her preferred spot in a nearby town.
Even though only a spouse, parent or child may report suspected offences under the new law, experts and rights groups have warned of the risk of misuse by those looking to crush alliances they dislike. “The code does not break the chain of hate,” Hendrika Mayora Victoria Kelan, who is a provincial village official, told Reuters. “The state rules over ... people’s bedrooms too much.”
“So there will be no legal process without complaints from the rightful party, or those who are directly harmed.”Eva, a 45-year-old trans woman who works as a busker combs her wig in her rented room in Jakarta, on Dec 22, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERSAlthough homosexuality is considered taboo in Indonesia, it is not illegal, except in the ultra-conservative, autonomous province of Aceh.
With sexual minorities already living under duress before the new rules, they stand to increase the risk of vigilantism, police raids, and abuse of the law, said Bivitri Susanti, an expert from the Indonesia Jentera school of law. Although homosexuality is considered taboo in Indonesia, it is not illegal, except in the ultra-conservative, autonomous province of Aceh. PHOTO: REUTERS
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