Indonesia parliament approves new penal code

Indonesia's parliament approved the legislative overhaul on Tuesday, as part of a decades-long process to replace its colonial-era penal code.

The criminal code includes laws that make it an offense to insult the president, the national flag and state institutions.

The laws also require people to get a permit to hold a protest and bans spreading fake news and views that are counter to the ideology of the state.

Other articles that officials say are meant to uphold Indonesian values in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation criminalise sex outside marriage, cohabitation between unmarried couples, the promotion of contraception to minors and abortion for non-rape victims.