Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s president, has just ordered his government to postpone the ratification of a portion of the criminal code that would make it illegal for citizens and foreign visitors to engage in extramarital sex and pre-marital cohabitation. It would also make insulting the president a crime punishable by three years in prison.
The proposed law provoked widespread anger across the country, with over 500,000 people signing a petition calling for Jokowi, as the president is known, to block the bill’s passage.
