Indonesia

The amended code also expands an existing blasphemy law and maintains a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia's six ...

“Finalizing this process demonstrates that even 76 years after the Dutch Criminal Code was adopted as the Indonesian Criminal Code, it is never too late to produce laws on our own,” Laoly said. Widodo instructed Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly to obtain input from various groups as lawmakers debated the articles. It restores a ban on insulting a sitting president or vice president, state institutions and the national ideology. President Joko Widodo is widely expected to sign the revised code in light of its extended approval process in Parliament. But even without the president's signature, it automatically takes effect after 30 days unless the president issues a regulation to cancel it. But under the new code, the death penalty has a probationary period.

Indonesia's Parliament has unanimously passed a revision of the country's penal code that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as ...

“Finalizing this process demonstrates that even 76 years after the Dutch Criminal Code was adopted as the Indonesian Criminal Code, it is never too late to produce laws on our own,” Laoly said. It restores a ban on insulting a sitting president or vice president, state institutions and the national ideology. Opponents said it contained articles that discriminated against minorities and that the legislative process lacked transparency. President Joko Widodo is widely expected to sign the revised code in light of its extended approval process in Parliament. But even without the president’s signature, it automatically takes effect after 30 days unless the president issues a regulation to cancel it. But under the new code, the death penalty has a probationary period.

Washington, D.C. / Jakarta, Indonesia – Today AmCham Indonesia and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted the 10th annual U.S.-Indonesia Investment Summit in ...

It will be important that the agreement is implemented vigorously, and at the same time, Indonesia creates an optimal environment that will incentivize investment in upstream and downstream renewable and sustainable energy projects. As Indonesia recovers from the COVID-induced downturn, the private sector has been working closely with Indonesia to articulate policies that will drive health security and provide better access. Indonesia’s recently passed Personal Data Protection bill is monumental, and AmCham Indonesia and the U.S. During the Summit, participants discussed ways to address the policy priorities that are key to unlocking greater trade and investment between the U.S. / Jakarta, Indonesia – Today AmCham Indonesia and the U.S. The event concluded with a call for Indonesia to continue its economic reform program, particularly in key areas such as the digital economy, public health, energy transition, and financial services.

The deputy head of Indonesia's anti-terrorism agency said on Wednesday he suspected that a blast at a police station in West Java was carried out by a ...

A suicide bomber wounded three officers in an attack on a police station in Indonesia's West Java province on Tuesday, police said.

Police said the father was the leader of a local affiliate of Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Anshorut Daulah. The current penal code is a Dutch colonial legacy. Television reports showed white smoke billowing from the building and people running in panic following a loud bang.

Three policemen are seriously injured as a suicide bomber blows himself up inside the compound of a police station in Indonesia , a police officer says.

The blast occurred at 8:20 a.m. at the police station in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung during a morning assembly in the front yard after the man entered the station and pointed a knife at the officers, according to Bandung Police Chief Aswin Sipayung. A policeman was killed and eight others were injured Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the compound of a police station on Indonesia's Java Island, a police officer said.

Indonesia's new criminal code outlawing sex outside marriage and potentially curbing free speech will apply to citizens and foreigners in the country, ...

Police in Indonesia say a Muslim militant and convicted bomb-maker who was released from prison last year blew himself up at a police station on the main ...

Police said the father was the leader of a local affiliate of Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Anshorut Daulah. “Using the new criminal code can only be seen as a momentum by terrorists to launch their action,” said Adhe Bakti, the executive director of the Center for Radicalism and Deradicalization Studies. Attacks aimed at foreigners have largely been replaced in recent years with smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, police and anti-terrorism forces and people who militants consider infidels. The deradicalization program has been used since 2012 as part of the government’s soft approach to rehabilitate militants and wean them off radical views so they can better integrate into society once they are released. He said police identified the man as Agus Sujatno, also known by his alias Abu Muslim. He later learned the officer died.

The revised criminal code which has been approved this week by the Indonesian parliament is getting the kind of publicity rarely given to arcane changes in another country's legal system. Headlines around the world are warning tourists visiting Indonesia ...

"This is one of the most dangerous part of the new criminal code. This originated in the idea that customary law, known in Indonesia as adat, which still governs some aspects of life in parts of the country, should be incorporated to prevent conflicts between it and the official criminal code. It is not about your sex life, they have been writing, but our civil rights. Evi Mariani, at the public journalism group Project Multatuli, has posted her concern on Twitter about the threat to journalists from article 263, which stipulates a four-year prison sentence for anyone found guilty of spreading news which is suspected of being false and causing public disturbances. The revised criminal code which has been approved this week by the Indonesian parliament is getting the kind of publicity rarely given to arcane changes in another country's legal system. Human rights groups have identified 17 articles which they believe threaten the freedoms won since the return to democratic rule in the 1990s.

Patek was serving a 20 year sentence for his role in the 2002 attacks that killed 202 people from 21 countries.

Patek was also convicted over other charges related to a series of bombings in Jakarta in 2000 that targeted Christmas Eve church services and killed 19 people. The Bali attacks were the worst in Indonesian history and led to a crackdown on hardline groups such as JI. Indonesia has released on parole Umar Patek, convicted for his role in the Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people in 2002, after he completed just more than half of his sentence.

The Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code on December 6, 2022, containing provisions that seriously violate international human rights law and ...

[interpreted](https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/18/indonesia-draft-criminal-code-disastrous-rights) to include hukum adat (customary criminal law) and Sharia (Islamic law) regulations at the local level. Articles 463-464 provide that a woman who aborted her pregnancy can be sentenced for up four years in prison (exceptions include a case where a woman is a victim of the crime of rape or sexual violence that causes pregnancy whose gestational age does not exceed 14 weeks; or a case where there are indications of a medical emergency). Anyone who attempts to persuade a person to be a non-believer in a religion or belief can be prosecuted and jailed, a serious setback to protecting freedom of religion and belief in Indonesia. Article 412 provides that couples who live together “as husband and wife” without being legally married can be sentenced to six months in prison. Article 304 states that if a believer becomes a non-believer, that is apostasy and that anyone who attempts to persuade a person to be a non-believer is committing a crime. Article 190 states that anyone who seeks to replace Pancasila as the state ideology will be sentenced up to five years in prison. The law contains dozens of other articles on online and offline criminal defamation, making it possible for anyone to report anyone else for criminal defamation. “Passage of this criminal code is the beginning of an unmitigated disaster for human rights in Indonesia,” Harsono said. Articles in the new code violate the rights of women, religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and undermine rights to freedom of speech and association. Moreover, articles in the law maintain the criminalization of abortion with some exceptions, and now also criminalize distributing information about contraception to children and providing information about obtaining an abortion to anyone, which especially harms women and girls. “In one fell swoop, Indonesia’s human rights situation has taken a drastic turn for the worse, with potentially millions of people in Indonesia subject to criminal prosecution under this deeply flawed law.” When Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo visits Europe next week for a summit between heads of government of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), EU leaders should strongly voice their opposition to the new law, said Human Rights Watch.

Australia's government says it is seeking assurances from Indonesia that the man convicted of making the bombs used in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks would ...

“This is a person who was in the Indonesian justice system. Patek was a leading member of Jemaah Islamiah, which was blamed for the blasts at two nightclubs in Kuta Beach. He told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.