The world this week--PoliticsIndonesia’s legislature passed a sweeping new criminal code that outlaws sex outside marriage, making it punishable by a stiff prison sentence.President Joko Widodo has not signed the new code into law, but has suggested he will.It applies to foreigners as well as locals.It also makes it illegal for Indonesians to leave their religion or persuade anyone to be a non-believer.The Taliban regime in Afghanistan carried out its first public execution since returning to power last year.A man was shot for murder (by the victim’s father) in front of a stadium crowd that included the government’s justice minister.Judges have recently been ordered to adhere closely to sharia law.Human-rights groups fear a return to the public mass executions and floggings of the 1990s.As Russia pounded Ukraine with more missiles, aiming to knock out critical infrastructure as winter deepens, Ukraine struck back.Two large explosions were reported at a pair of Russian air bases several hundred kilometres from the border.It is thought that the attacks, which damaged aircraft, were carried out by Ukrainian drones, but it is unclear why Russia had been unable to stop them.Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said that the price cap set by the G7 and EU on Russian oil was too high to inflict real damage on the Russian economy and called for tougher action.
