The fact that foreigners can hook up without wedlock or outside one’s nuptial contract may seem unfair, especially to young and restless Indonesians. As further ‘reassurance’, it turns out that the new law, which comes into affect after three years, can be used for prosecution only if there is a complaint by a parent, spouse or child. That doesn’t sound too reassuring for ‘forbidden love’, considering premarital sex and adultery have been thrown under the same crime once safely considered only sin.
But if foreigners can go ahead and have a fling without fear along the coastlines of Indonesia, it would stand to reason that Indonesians who wish to engage in the matter of non-marital sex could travel outside the country’s borders to do the needful and return without fear.
The law remains a bit shaky on whether the crime is committing it on Indonesian territory or committing it anywhere. Keeping that in mind, India, a place from where hordes travel to Indonesia, could consider amorous Indonesians ‘getaway’ tourism here. After all, every good toss and turn deserves another.