{"id":3970,"date":"2016-05-27T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/27\/indonesia-will-now-chemically-castrate-child-sex-offenders\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T08:00:15","slug":"indonesia-will-now-chemically-castrate-child-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/27\/indonesia-will-now-chemically-castrate-child-sex-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia will now chemically castrate child sex offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indonesia has raised the punishment for convicted pedophiles to chemical castration, in response to national outrage following the brutal gang rape and murder of a young girl.<\/p>\n

President Joko Widodo signed off<\/a> on the new law on Wednesday, saying: “We hope that this law will be a deterrent for offenders and can suppress sexual crimes against children.”<\/p>\n

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The maximum jail time for child sex offenders has also been increased from 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Reports of rape linked to online dating in the UK have skyrocketed in 5 years<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Activists had been pressing Widodo to fast track the bill, after a violent gang rape and murder shocked the nation. In April, a 14-year-old girl was dragged<\/a> into the forest in Sumatra and gang raped then killed by 14 boys, many younger than 18. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indonesia has raised the punishment for convicted pedophiles to chemical castration, in response to national outrage following the brutal gang rape and murder of a young girl. President Joko Widodo signed off on the new law on Wednesday, saying: “We … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3086,1022,3087,3085,1112],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-castration","tag-indonesia","tag-pedophiles","tag-sex-crimes","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}