Indonesia Constitutional Court Scraps Rules on Government Insults

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court struck down provisions that made it a crime to insult the government and state institutions, less than eight months after the restrictions took effect.

Additional government pleader Jyoti Chavan told a Bench of acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad that the government has decided to extend the time given to auto rickshaw and taxi drivers to learn the language by one year