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Indonesia bans sex outside of marriage with new criminal code

Published 7 December 2022, 5:09 am
Indonesia's parliament has approved a criminal code that bans sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, part of a raft of legal changes that critics say undermine civil liberties in the world's third-largest democracy.
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