Indonesia’s Draft Criminal Code: More Articles Explained
The controversial code could be passed into law in August and lawmakers fear that it could be used to clamp down on civil liberties.
The Ministry of Law and Human Rights has announced plans to pass its new Draft Criminal Code—a comprehensive overhaul of the current code which dates from 1918 and was drafted during the Dutch colonial period—before Indonesia’s Independence Day on 17 August.
As the country gets ready to sign the new code into force, civil rights groups and lawmakers cont…
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