Unmarried couple frets over Indonesia’s sex ban
By Reuters
16 November 2019 |
2:33 am
After 13 years together, one middle-aged Indonesian couple is worried. Their relationship is neither legal nor official, and a controversial new penal code to be discussed in parliament could make them criminals by banning sex outside marriage.
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