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Although Jokowi issued a plea for religious tolerance in his annual State of the Nation address on August 16, his administration has failed to translate his rhetorical support for human rights into meaningful policies during his first term in office. Religious and gender minorities continue to face harassment. Authorities continue to arrest, prosecute, and imprison people under the blasphemy law. Indonesian security forces continue to pay little price for committing abuses, including past unlawful killings of Papuans, and authorities continue to place far-reaching restrictions on foreign journalists seeking to report from Papua and West Papua provinces.
There is little sign that Jokowi is willing to extend the necessary political capital to make human rights a meaningful component of his campaign for re-election in The Jokowi administration also publicly backpedaled from a commitment to provide accountability for the mass killings of Following a deluge of government-driven anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT rhetoric, authorities in continued to target private gatherings and LGBT individuals—a serious threat to privacy and public health initiatives in the country.
They included an ethnic Chinese Buddhist in Tanjung Balai in North Sumatra who received an month prison sentence in August for complaining about noise levels at a local mosque. The previous month, the Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to the blasphemy law filed by the Ahmadiyah religious minority.
On May 19, militant Islamists attacked and damaged eight Ahmadiyah houses on Lombok Island, forcing 24 people from seven families to seek refuge at the East Lombok police precinct. Journalist Muhammad Yusuf died on June 10 in police custody in Kotabaru, South Kalimantan, while being detained for criminal defamation. In September , the Bireuen Regency government banned unmarried couples from sitting at the same table in restaurants. That prohibition was in a Sharia Islamic law regency circular that also forbids such businesses from serving female customers after 9 p.
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In April, Jokowi announced that he was preparing a presidential decree that would ban child marriage. Around 14 percent of girls in Indonesia are married before age 18, and 1 percent marry before age No timetable was mentioned for abolition. In July, Indonesia's official Commission on Violence against Women sought assistance from the Presidential Executive Office in combating discrimination against women.
The commission has been advocating for the revocation of discriminatory Sharia-based regional ordinances proliferating nationwide. Security forces have been responsible for an estimated 95 deaths in 69 incidents from in which 39 were related to peaceful political activities such as demonstrations or raising the Papuan independence flag. No security force personnel have been convicted in civilian courts for those deaths, with only a handful of cases leading to disciplinary measures or military trials.
Henschke, who had a legitimate travel document, was questioned for a total of 17 hours before being freed. Five Papuan men, including a graduate student, were arrested separately in the Skrzypski case Skrzypski did not have a travel permit for Papua.
Police arbitrary and unlawful raids on private LGBT gatherings, assisted by militant Islamists, has effectively derailed public health outreach efforts to vulnerable populations. HIV rates among men who have sex with men MSM have consequently increased five-fold since from 5 to 25 percent. In January , police and Sharia police in North Aceh detained 12 transgender women and forced them to disrobe.

National Police Chief Tito Karnavian ordered an investigation into the raids. A criminal code bill, designed to replace the Dutch-colonial era criminal code, underwent several rounds of debate and revision in parliament. On May , three Indonesian families intentionally used their own children, who were between the ages of 9 and 18, to detonate explosives or to accompany their parents carrying out suicide attacks against three churches in Surabaya.
The bombings killed at least 12 people, plus 13 attackers, and wounded at least 50 others.
The families were linked to the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, an affiliate of the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the bombings. On May 25, parliament amended the counterterrorism law, which relies on an overbroad definition of terrorism, extends capital punishment crimes, and extends pre-charge detention periods to 21 days.
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