Indonesia is set to overhaul its criminal code, making sex outside of marriage punishable with up to one year in jail
Deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, and Bambang Wuryanto, head of the parliamentary commission overseeing the revision, told Reuters that parliament would hold a plenary session on Tuesday to ratify the new code.. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets and the protests turned violent, with police dispersing crowds using tear gas and water cannons.The revisions to the code, which dates back to the colonial era, have been decades in the making.
"On cohabitation, for example, it's clearly a private matter," he said."We will keep rejecting this." Under the revised code, only close relatives such as a spouse, parent or child can report complaints related to extramarital sex or cohabiting.