Indonesia’s growing population falls out of love with marriage | The Straits Times
Indonesia’s growing population falls out of love with marriage | The Straits Times
Fewer Indonesians are tying the knot even as the population grows, jeopardising the country's economic goals. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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With this context, it gets more interesting:
On 6 December 2022, the Parliament of Indonesia passed the country’s new criminal code (NCC), outlawing sex and cohabitation outside of marriage. Under the new law, extramarital sex carries a jail sentence of one year, while cohabitation of unmarried couples carries a jail term of six months. In a statement given to Reuters, a spokesperson for the Indonesian justice ministry justified the law on the grounds that it aimed to “protect the institution of marriage and Indonesian values.”
Well, it doesn't seem to have worked – at least not in the short term. So now they can't have sex and they're not marrying either, worst of both worlds. Maybe they also wouldn't have a prison overcrowding problem if they stopped jailing people for things like these.
Prison overcrowding is only a problem if you give a shit
Just put a sticker over the light.