{"id":40925,"date":"2019-09-23T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40925"},"modified":"2019-09-23T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:22:22","slug":"indonesias-president-postpones-vote-to-criminalize-sex-outside-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40925","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia&#8217;s President postpones vote to criminalize sex outside marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Indonesian President Joko Widodo has postponed a vote that could have criminalized consensual extramarital sex after outcry from human rights groups worldwide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The vote would have been on <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/27\/asia\/indonesia-joko-widodo-interview-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new penal code<\/a>, which the government agreed on last week. The code was set to pass into law on Tuesday, with lawmakers describing the vote as a formality. The code would also have effectively outlawed same-sex relations and made it a criminal offense to insult the president.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a televised address on Friday, Widodo said he decided to postpone the vote after &#8220;seriously considering feedback from different parties who feel objections on some substantial content of the criminal code.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Indonesian President Joko Widodo has postponed a vote that could have criminalized consensual extramarital sex after outcry from human rights groups worldwide.The vote would have been on a new penal code, which the government agreed on last week. The code was set to pass into law on Tuesday, with lawmakers describing the vote as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}