Three women's rights groups say Indonesia's controversial new criminal code will make it easier and more common for sexual assault victims to be forced into marrying their own rapists. WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing.
But Mr Wibisono said that in an increasingly intolerant and conservative country, many in the LGBTIQ community have reason to fear their own parents who they don't support their life choices.
"Indonesia [is going] backward … imitating those that practise the radical religious beliefs," Mr Wibinsono said. The legislative overhaul has been decades in the making, and has sparked widespread public criticism and protest in the past. Political experts predict the most contentious provisions of the new criminal code will inevitably be challenged in Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which has struck out controversial laws before.
Deputy Chief Justice Aswanto was supposed to serve until 2029, according to the 2020 amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court, but was dismissed in October for "failing to defend the interests" of Indonesia's House of Representatives while serving on the Court.
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