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What is the age of consent in Indonesia? 15 or 18?
Content Warning: this post mentions rape / non-consensual sex and discusses (in some non-explicit detail) coercion of minors.
As of Tuesday, March 1st, 2016, according to the Indonesian Penal Code (...
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How public a speech be so that it's in range of Indonesian anti blasphemy laws?
The English version of the law says
By a maximum imprisonment of five years shall be punished for
whosoever in public deliberately expresses their feelings or engages
in actions that: a. in ...
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In Indonesia, can a clerk of courts be made to issue a court's decision without a bribe?
You can report that said clerk to the Monitoring Information System called SIWASMARI. Please don't bribe them as you will not change our criminal justice system.
You can also send some mail to the ...
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Are there any indication that article 112 of anti narcotic laws in Indonesia are meant for "dealers" rather than "users"?
Its worth actually reading through the law again - they're meant for different categories of drugs - and its worth looking up the relevant laws as a whole. You can't cherrypick which law you charge ...
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Is this true that drug users in Indonesia cannot be prosecuted if they are in rehabilitation?
The official clause in question is here:
Pecandu Narkotika yang telah cukup umur sebagaimana dimaksud dalam
Pasal 55 ayat (2) yang sedang menjalani rehabilitasi medis 2 (dua)
kali masa ...
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If I move to Indonesia as a British citizen but continue to work for a British company how will my tax work?
The usual method is that every country charges you income tax for income that you make while your body is in the country. Big exception is the USA which wants a chunk of every income, and some ...
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Can judicial branch modify the law without showing that the law is not constitutional?
The question seems to somewhat misunderstand the role of courts in the united-states
The United States uses a common-law system, ultimately derived from the law of Great Britain as it was at the time ...
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Can judicial branch modify the law without showing that the law is not constitutional?
Being a civil law regime, courts in Indonesia do not rewrite the law, and rulings are ad hoc. The Constitutional Court has the exclusive power to rule on the constitutionality of a law, as in this ...
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How did the "Wise Honest" end up at the US (and not Indonesian) custody?
Inter-country law enforcement is quite common.
Based on the links you provided, the US requested the Indonesians to detain the ship and then transfer it to their control for violation of US law. The ...
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Is the law in Indonesia adversarial?
No. Indonesia Law uses Civil Law structures which use an Inquisitorial Trial. The chief difference is that in the United States (which has a Common Law Structure) the judge usually does not decide ...
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What is the age of consent in Indonesia? 15 or 18?
The site ageofconsent.net in the other answer is not a reliable source. It is completely wrong to say that there is an age of consent of 16.
Indonesia has a criminal code, which is in Dutch, not ...
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Can companies legally make unreasonable term of service?
The first defense would be to read the contract and see what is required of the customer. If you do not understand what 30*12 means, you should not sign the contract until you get it spelled out. If ...
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What the prosecutor need to proof to proof blasphemy case in Ahok case
I suspect that the main problem here is that the translation is too literal and does not reflect the rules in the Indonesian language regarding when you imply an "and" v. an "or" when two clauses are ...
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To what extent can a country criminalize acts outside its territory?
To the extent that the country's constitution allows the legislature to make a law with extraterritorial scope.
(Of course other countries may or may not cooperate with the enforcement of that law.)
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In Indonesia, do I have to remain silent if I am caught?
The US Fifth Amendment right to silence has multiple consequences, one being that the police cannot beat a confession out of you, you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself, and if you refuse ...
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Can judicial branch modify the law without showing that the law is not constitutional?
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No federal court in the U.S. would do what this particular ruling did without express statutory authorization to do so. But that does not mean that this ruling is outside the realm of ...
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Can judicial branch modify the law without showing that the law is not constitutional?
So I don't know what legal system Indonesia uses, but since you brought up US Law, the answer is "No" the law need not be unconstitutional to be struck, though this is a good way to get it ...
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Are websites mandated to retain I.P. addresses fr five years or not under this regulation or id is a mis interpretation?
Apparently, Indonesia is currently in the process to alter how Personal Identification Data is to be handled in the future:
For example, the PDP Draft Law provides that in processing personal data, ...
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What are the difference in obfuscated contract laws between Indonesia and USA, Australia, Europe, and Singapore?
According to this
Do US or Australia have laws that prevent insurance companies from racking up too much margin?
It is flat out against the law to mislead or deceive - you can’t lie,
you can’t ...
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Statute Book vs. Government Gazette
Statute Book has closer meaning to Lembaran Negara. There is some confusion when we are speaking about Lembaran Negara because in Dutch we called it Staatsblad or Official Gazette in English. ...
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"Laws and Regulations"
Generally speaking a "law" is "primary legislation", meaning it has been debated and passed by a parliament of some kind, while a "regulation" is "secondary legislation", meaning that it has been ...
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