INDONESIA IS CRIMINLAIZING RAPE VICTIMS, WORKING WOMEN, THE POOR, ETC
Presiden Jokowi, Jangan Setujui RKUHP di Sidang Paripurna DPR.
I ranted about this before but I’m trying to take action now, and I poste dbefore but the tags didn’t work. So Indonesia is potentially going to become a dystopic mysoginistic cruel authoritarian nation if this set of new laws get accepted. It’s disheartening that western media tends to ignore all the horrible stuff happening here and I think it needs to stop.
Please, sign this petition and signal boost/reblog this. From the bottom of my heart thank you if you decide to help out in fighting the festering patriachy and power abuse in Indonesia.
I’ll translate the description in the petition to make it clear (annotated by me with red):
In days time, DPR (People’s Representative Council, the one suggetsing the laws. At this point they just abuse power and hoard money through corruption instead of being the people’s voice in this ‘democracy’) and the government will legalize a set of preposterous crimimal laws! After legalizing the revision of KPK Laws (KPK in a national organization responsible to root out and deal with corruption in the government, and DPR tweaked the laws so that KPK has less power over them, alowing them to do their dirty deeds more easily), now they want to approve the revision of RKHUP (book of criminal laws)
“How does that affect me?” If you think so, better check if you’re among the people below. Because in RKUHP, these people are considered “criminals” (based on the draft agreed by DPR at 15 Sept)
Rape Victims - will be imprisoned for 4 years if they want to abort the resulting fetus
Women that have to go home from work late and night, found ‘displaced’ on the streets - Fined for 1 Million rupiah (about 71 USD)
Women who are forced to have roomates that are the opposite sex due to financial problems - can be reported and imprisoned for 6 months
Buskers (street performers) - Fined for 1 Million rupiah
Parking attendants (in many places at Indonesia, parking attendants help you park your car (most not employed by someone so members of the lower economic class), and their income comes fully from what you pay them) - Fined for 1 Million rupiah
Homeless people - Fined for 1 Million rupiah
Abandoned mentally disabled people - Fined for 1 Million rupiah
Journalists or Netizen (generally every Indonesian who uses the internet) - will be imprisoned for 3.5 years for criticizing the president
Parents can’t show contraception tools to their children because they are not the “authorized officers” and will be fined for 1 Million rupiah
Children who are reported to commit adultery by their parents - imprisoned 1 year
The worst part is that we can be punished as criminals whenever they want as a form of “traditional obligation” if considered offending “the law of the people” (this will be used as a front for racist acts. Even now racism against non majority ethinicities and religions such as Chinese Indonesians and non muslims (Being the majority, Indonesia radical muslim figureheads act like a racist prejudiced American pastor would. The situation is like how Christian and white supremacists are in America, the radical figureheads hold much power and oppress people of other political and religious beliefs with mobs of followers they manipulated for their cause.) are prevalent and the higher ups can be biased against our ethincity and so divert justice from us. This will worsen it)
Seriously, “the law of the people” what does that even mean? BS. The RKUHP proposal isn’t even certain and the government admits to have not researched on it! So incompetent right!
And then about corruptors, hmmm, in the revision of the KUHP the punishment for hoarding money for self gain in a way that defies the law for corruptors which was 4 years of prison is changed to be lighter, into 2 years of prison! (Which makes it lighter than rape victim abortion)
How did they make these absurd laws?
At 18 September 2019, the DPR had just performed a meeting with the Ministry of Human Rights for the legalization of RKUHP at level 1 (very near approval)
In spite of that, there is 1 more step to prevent the legalization of the laws, at the Plenary Meeting of the Indonesian DPR.
The President can reject the approval for this absurd set of laws.
Let’s ask the President to reject this RKUHP at the Plenary Meeting of its approval!
Now we can’t keep ignoring this anymore. Because anyone can be imprisoned. Me, you, our family, our friends, our crushes (Indonesia in-joke). #SEMUABISAKENA (#EVERYONECANBECAUGHT)
Sign this petition and share it in your social media. Let’s make the hashtag #SEMUABISAKENA viral so that the DPR can cancel the RKUHP. We don’t have much time.
Long ago we stopped laws that could imprison people criticizing the DPR from being approved. Now we also still have a chance to cancel this preposterous set of laws.
I will appreciate it so much if you sign and/or signal boost this. Indonesia is gonna start to become like Gilead from the Handmaid’s Tale if we don’t do anything.
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