Indonesia's legislative arm has passed a new law that criminalizes sex before or outside marriage. People convicted of extramarital sex could face as much as one year in prison.
This law would also affect foreigners and tourists that came to visit the country. Some citizens of the country are protesting against this law. While others are seeing it as a welcome development.
Business owners in the country are lamenting that this law can discourage tourists from visiting the country which would affect their businesses negatively. I am also perceiving that this policy might also scare investors from investing in Indonesia. But some religious business owners are of the view that this policy would attract business to the country from other religious or conservative nations or investors.
What are your thoughts?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63869078I predict it will have zero effect on businesses because everything that was happening before will continue to happen, it will just end up in more of a black market for it. It's a very dumb law that is clearly made by politicians who want to pander to some religious leaders and are probably trying to "buy" votes for the next election, since they've done nothing to help the economy or get more jobs going. Ultimately if people are going to do these things, they'll just rent a hotel room and do it low key. Thinking about it a bit more, it could certainly kill off whatever remnants of a tourist trade they might have going because people who are not married might never want to visit such a place for fear of legal punishment.
Everywhere it is politics that is getting mixed with religion. This too a kind of terrorism. It should not be done, and the politicians try to make votes out of each and everything. Indonesia being a Muslim majority nation, there won't be big opposition. As mentioned, everything will happen same as the past. We can see some complaints arising to end up revenge. A big drop in the tourism will happen from the person who travel single. Maybe as predicted this rule can encourage religious people visiting Indonesia.