Indonesia on Friday began enforcing its newly ratified penal code, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the ...

Indonesia’s long-awaited new Criminal Code, which has come under fire for its bans on pre-marital sex and insults to the ...

In a letter to the editor published Jan. 31 and titled "A legal code on guilt for priest?," the author wrote that "in the Napoleonic Code an accused person was considered guilty until proven innocent.

On Sunday, Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant held up the Goa civil code as the model that other states can emulate. In March 2022, the Supreme Court told the central government to respond to a public ...

A group of prominent civil society members have raised objections to the proposed Penal Code amendments calling for the reduction of the age of consent, concerning statutory rape to 14 years. A ...

Uniform Civil Code is defined in our Constitution under Article 44 which states that it is the duty of the state to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India. Now ...