KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia’s president, who ordered lawmakers to delay a planned vote on updates to the country’s penal code, has been urged to scrap the changes as they would further persecute the country’s beleaguered LGBT+ community.
Under draft laws agreed by lawmakers and the government earlier this week, unmarried couples who “live together as a husband and wife” could be jailed for six months.
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