Jakarta -
The Indonesian President Joko Jokowi Widodo issued a regulation on Wednesday that provides tougher penalties for child rapists, including chemical castration and the death penalty.
He said the administrative order is a response to increasing sexual violence against children.
An extraordinary crime deserves an exceptional response, he said.
Demands for harsher punishments have increased following the rape and murder of a teenage girl by 14 men in western Indonesia last month.
The new regulation amends a Child Protection Law issued in 2002 that carried a maximum 15-year prison sentence for persons having intercourse with a minor.
The Independent