Indonesia is at it again.
President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, has signed a decree authorising chemical castration for convicted child sex offenders and requiring those released on parole to wear electronic monitoring devices.
Widodo’s new decree is in response to the brutal gang rape and murder of a teenager by unknown men in April.
Seven teenage people were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime, which prompted national outrage and revived previous calls for chemical castration as a punishment against child sex offenders.
According to NewYorktimes.com, the law was made in May and has come to full force immediately.
“The inclusion of such an amendment will provide space for the judge to decide severe punishments as a deterrent effect on perpetrators,” the president said.
“These crimes have undermined the development of children, and these crimes have disturbed our sense of peace, security and public order,” he said. “So, we will handle it in an extraordinary way.”
