While international attention has fallen on the ban on extramarital sex, others are concerned Indonesia's new criminal code could be used to silence government critics and civil liberties.
JAKARTA In the nearly two years since Indonesian lawmakers passed a controversial mining law, the legislation has increasingly been used by police to arrest villagers and local activists opposed to mining operations on their lands. Human rights activists, including the national rights commission, Komnas HAM, have criticized the law, an amendment to an old […]