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Indonesia's LGBTQ community fears crackdown under legal reforms
Deutsche Welle via MSN ^ | 06-02-2022 | Arti Ekawati,

Posted on 06/02/2022 6:42:30 PM PDT by Salman

Indonesia's parliament is currently debating on how to rework the country's criminal code, and LGBTQ rights activists are worried new legal standards could be used to penalize and persecute same-sex couples.Indonesia's lawmakers are working on reforming the country's criminal code under a draft bill abbreviated in Indonesian as RKUHP. The reforms are an attempt to sweep out a colonial era criminal justice system, but there is concern the reforms will be used to make more types of conduct illegal.

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LGBTQ rights in Indonesia are not legally protected© picture-alliance/NurPhoto LGBTQ rights in Indonesia are not legally protected Indonesia's parliament is currently debating on how to rework the country's criminal code, and LGBTQ rights activists are worried new legal standards could be used to penalize and persecute same-sex couples.Indonesia's lawmakers are working on reforming the country's criminal code under a draft bill abbreviated in Indonesian as RKUHP. The reforms are an attempt to sweep out a colonial era criminal justice system, but there is concern the reforms will be used to make more types of conduct illegal.

LGBTQ rights activists are worried new legal standards could be used to penalize and persecute same-sex couples.

Same-sex couples in Indonesia cannot legally marry, and the law states that marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman as husband and wife.

However, there is also no specific law prohibiting and penalizing a same-sex relationship between two consenting adults. There is concern that a new law could be introduced targeting Indonesia's LGBTQ community.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: analsex; anusfetsh; homosexualagenda; islam; monkeypox; sodomites; sodomy
Emphasis added. My guess is that at independence, the Indonesians didn't figure they'd need such a law.
1 posted on 06/02/2022 6:42:30 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

All two of them? Have the authorities identified all of them?


2 posted on 06/02/2022 6:44:30 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Salman

“Same-sex couples in Indonesia cannot legally marry, and the law states that marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman as husband and wife.”

Well, Indonesia is only upholding the teachings from civilizations going back at least 7,000 years.


3 posted on 06/02/2022 6:48:37 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Salman

Y’all know Indonesia is mostly Moslem?


4 posted on 06/02/2022 6:49:21 PM PDT by rellic
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To: packagingguy

Yep. Legalized homosexuality is a very recent thing.


5 posted on 06/02/2022 6:53:05 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Salman

Homosexual acts should again be illegal everywhere.


6 posted on 06/02/2022 7:08:47 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Salman

Happy Pride Month, Indofaggots!


7 posted on 06/02/2022 8:11:53 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Salman; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Give the Sodomites an inch and they will take all of civilization.


8 posted on 06/02/2022 8:46:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Salman
This is about Sex tourism which is targeting the street kids, both girls and boys.

It's a big problem here in the Philippines too.

9 posted on 06/02/2022 11:34:51 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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