Full sexual freedom returns to Bali!
In a wild ol switcharoo, the governor of Bali, has exempted tourists from Indonesia’s puritanical new sex laws.
Last week, you’ll remember, Indonesia passed sweeping legislation that approved jail terms for up to one year if an unmarried person’s sexual energy became such you had no choice but to come, full blast, into a woman, man or beast.
Live together, unwed, and you’re behind bars for six months.
Adultery has long been illegal, of course, in sunni Muslim Indonesia. In the more progressive provinces of northern Sumatra, lashings are common for adulterers and homosexuals.
Pointedly, no exemptions.
“The new code, which also applies to foreign residents and tourists, bans cohabitation before marriage, apostasy, and provides punishments for insulting the president or expressing views counter to the national ideology.”
Now, following fears a significant percentage of the sixteen million tourists that visit Bali each year would go elsewhere, the island’s Governor Wayan Koster has taken the extraordinary step of announcing local authorities would not be breaking down the doors of hotel rooms, demanding wedding certificates and so forth.
“Bali is Bali as usual, which is comfortable and safe to be visited,” Koster said. “There will be no checks on marital status upon check-in at any tourism accommodation … nor inspections by public officials or community groups.”
Koster, aware or not of the glorious double entendre, added, ““I want to emphasise… please come… you will not be charged!”
But they can do as the police in Mexico do perhaps
Good opportunity for the local police to make some extra $
Pay to come
I will come but not go.
thank fuck,,,
DR was this your favorite thing to write for 2022?
Can you imagine enforcement alone?
I’d like to believe that there’s a crusty Indonesian beat cop out there who gets things done because he doesn’t always do things exactly by the book who’d be capable of enforcing this law alone without any backup because he’s just that badass.
Although the new laws are not scheduled to be implemented for at least three years, Governor Koster should be aware what he is saying is in direct contravention to national law in Indonesia and that Bali is part of the Republic of Indonesia?
Could Bali secede from the Republik Indonesia and become an independent country?
Developing story.
she wears the shoes in the fam…amilda!
No one wants to be the poster child for any law so I will bring my wife instead of my girlfriend to Bali. So sad!
high heels…tossed my fanning’s…free shoes?