
He will become the first person in his country to be chemically castrated in a landmark court ruling declaring harsher punishment for sex offenders especially pedophiles
He was sentenced at a court in East Java under the Presidential Regulation In Lieu of Law.
The court ruling read:
President Joko Widodo said at the time of ratification:
“segxwal crimes against children are extraordinary crimes, because they threaten the lives of children.”
The judgement cannot be implemented in the country yet as doctors have refused to perform the procedure.
Indonesia’s medical practictioners has insisted the practise goes against their ethics and violates a 2016 edict by the Medical Ethics and Honors Council. As a result, the punishment date has not been set.
DI chairman Ilham Oetama Marsis said in an official statement in 2016: “Don’t involve doctors as executors of the additional punishment”.
The head of medical doctors in Indonesia continues: “Based on scientific evidence, chemical castration does not suppress perpetrators’ desire for segxwal violence.”
What is chemical castration?
It involves the use of anaphrodisiac drugs via injection or tablets, to reduce libido or segxwal activity. The effects are reversible after the person stops taking the drug. Castration can also be surgical. Wikipedia says: “Unlike surgical castration, where the gonads are removed through an incision in the body, chemical castration does not remove organs, nor is it a form of sterilization.
It is generally considered reversible when treatment is discontinued, although permanent effects in body chemistry can sometimes be seen, as in the case of bone density loss increasing with length of use of DMPA”.
Countries that constitutionally castrate Rapists
Countries which use chemical castration include Argentina, Australia, Estonia, Ukraine, Khazastan, Israel, Moldova, New Zealand, Poland and Russia.
Moldova legalised the practice in 2012 as a punishment against those convicted for child sex crimes.
Chemical castration is gaining popularity in the US
Earlier in June this year, Alabama signed a law requiring child sex offenders with victims younger than 13 to undergo castration as a condition of parole.
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