Indonesia to outlaw queers, premarital sex
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is drafting regulations that could outlaw sex before marriage, living together outside wedlock, and homosexuality, an official said yesterday - providing certain criteria were met. Abdul Gani Abdullah, the Director General of Legislation, said the draft revisions would also ban witchcraft. "If society chooses not to do anything and has no objection to any cohabitation for example, then it is not a crime," Abdullah said by telephone, adding that people would need to lodge complaints before authorities reacted. He added Muslim leaders, including experts in Islamic sharia law, had been consulted. Guardian Unlimited
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