‘Death, chemical castration’ for child rapists

Published May 26, 2016

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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

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