Indonesia's LGBTQ community fears crackdown under legal reforms
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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