The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, signed a decree on Wednesday authorizing chemical castration for convicted child sex offenders and requiring those released on parole to wear electronic monitoring devices.
The new punishment comes in response to the brutal gang rape and murder in April of a 14-year-old girl on her way home on the island of Sumatra.
Seven teenage boys were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime, which prompted national outrage and revived previous calls for chemical castration as a punishment against child sex offenders.
Mr. Joko told a news conference at the presidential palace in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, that he had signed a decree amending the country’s 2002 law on child protection to enable judges to hand down the punishment at their discretion.
“The inclusion of such an amendment will provide space for the judge to decide severe punishments as a deterrent effect on perpetrators,” Mr. Joko said.
“These crimes have undermined the development of children, and these crimes have disturbed our sense of peace, security and public order,” he said. “So, we will handle it in an extraordinary way.”
Mr. Joko said that “segxwal violence against children has increased significantly” in Indonesia, although his government has not provided data to back his assertions. He also increased the jail sentences for child sex offenders to a maximum of 20 years from 10 years.
The local news media has cited the country’s National Commission on Violence Against Women as saying that around 35 Indonesian women a day are victims of segxwal violence.
Through chemical castration, drugs are used to reduce a person’s sex drive. A number of countries have employed the punishment for convicted sex offenders and pedophiles, in many cases in exchange for more lenient prison sentences. They include Australia, Russia, South Korea and the United States.
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Posted: at 22-08-2016 07:21 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Powerfulify at 22-08-2016 07:28 PM (8 years ago) (m)
All d bingos b careful
Posted: at 22-08-2016 07:28 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
If Nigeria implement such law.in less than one year 50% of Northern men will be Castrated and Buhari Uncles,Cousins,Nephew etc will be among those Castrated.so for that reason Buhari will never implement such law .do you people want to reduce the Northern population ?
Posted: at 22-08-2016 08:31 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
HUMANresurce at 22-08-2016 08:32 PM (8 years ago) (m)
All these useless countries where human right never exist, i'm sorry for the people that chooses to live there. Upon all these wicked laws, the crime still augmenting higher. The european countries are still the best no matter what and they are very inteligent than these ARAB ASIAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Posted: at 22-08-2016 08:32 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
Pls wen will dis kind of nice sentence come to Nigeria? Dis is so wonderful. I wish our so called senate will leave fighting each others and take a stand and pass dis bill.
Wait o, some of them in dat Senate are offenders of such crime so it will be difficult for them to agree and pass d bill.
Posted: at 22-08-2016 08:56 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Pls wen will dis kind of nice sentence come to Nigeria? Dis is so wonderful. I wish our so called senate will leave fighting each others and take a stand and pass dis bill.
Wait o, some of them in dat Senate are offenders of such crime so it will be difficult for them to agree and pass d bill.
seriously, our senate have really replaced priorities with frivolities. how can perpetrators be administrators... we shall get it right someday
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Posted: at 23-08-2016 07:26 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero