Indonesia overhauls its criminal code

Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that bans anyone in the country from having extramarital sex and restricts political freedoms. Sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up to a year under the new laws, which take effect in three years.

Also in the programme: Democrats in America keep control of the Senate; and women choosing to be ordained by the Catholic church.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other stories are Shahida Tulaganova, a British-Uzbek journalist and filmmaker based in London, and Marc David Baer, a professor of international history at the London School of Economics.

(Photo: A protester holds a banner and a flower during a protest against the draft of a new criminal law, outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia. CREDIT: EPA/MAST IRHAM)