JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Friday started implementing its newly ratified penal code, changing a Dutch-era prison legislation that had ruled the nation for greater than 80 years and marking a serious shift in its authorized panorama.
Since proclaiming independence in 1945, the Southeast Asian nation had continued to function beneath a colonial framework extensively criticized as outdated and misaligned with Indonesia’s social values. Efforts to revise the code stalled for many years as lawmakers debated steadiness human rights, spiritual norms and native traditions on the planet’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
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