Criminal Congress

The inclusion of cohabitation and journalistic offences in the Criminal Code draft has triggered widespread controversy. The bill is also still ambiguous.

October 7, 2003

CONTROVERSIAL news can spring up from anywhere, even from a mosque pulpit. Just like the Criminal Code draft issue that has attracted public attention lately. Two weeks ago in a Friday sermon at his office, Minister of Justice & Human Rights, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, mentioned that the revised Criminal Code bill included elements of Islamic law in its adultery provision.

Yusril's comment caught the attention of one journalist who questioned

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