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Article 411 punishes extramarital sex with a jail sentence of up to one yr. The earlier legal code supplied that only married couples could be prosecuted for extramarital sex based mostly on police complaints by their spouse or children. The new code says mother and father, kids, or spouses can file a police report in opposition to married or single individuals. While this article does not particularly point out same-sex conduct, since same-sex relationships are not legally acknowledged in Indonesia, this provision effectively criminalizes all same-sex conduct. Human Rights Watch …