Top Indonesian court rejects attempt to criminalise gay sex
Top Indonesian court rejects attempt to criminalise gay sex
- Rights advocates had feared the court would outlaw gay sex and sex outside marriage and set back human rights in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The ruling said it is not the Constitutional Court's role to criminalise private behaviour or to usurp parliament by imposing laws on it.
- Rights advocates had feared the court would outlaw gay sex and sex outside marriage and set back human rights in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The ruling said it is not the Constitutional Court's role to criminalise private behaviour or to usurp parliament by imposing laws on it.