The flag of Indonesia is a band of red above white.
What is the danger? Apart from deliberately having extra-marital sex, there's the risk of accidentally breaking the law and the trap. The tourist goes to a bar, a beach, a restaurant, anywhere, and meets an attractive person who says they are single, divorced or widowed.
Whether they are a local person or a fellow tourist, the love of your life, or a passing interest, pushes things further. Up pops a video camera's witness, or a spouse's detective with spouse in tow.
You are subject to blackmail. Or a year in jail.
Do you chat to a girl in a bar? Do you allow a group to befriend you?
The person beside you on the bus will be warning you not to talk to the person sitting in front of you who tries to strike up a friendly conversation. I had this when I was single. Everybody was warning me in countries such as Turkey not to talk to another person.
The whole time you are wondering what will happen if the friendly person gives you a peck on the cheek. What about a goodbye hug and kiss, at the disco, after a day travelling together, or even bye-bye at the airport?
What if you are not travelling, but a travel agent? You only need newspapers to report that one person claims to be imprisoned or blackmailed or forced into marriage, or to claim that, and your travel brochure for a business in London has to be reprinted. Your travel rep is laid off. Your aircraft's flight is cancelled because of falling bookings.
So you are a tourist and you are not worried. But you go on holiday and one of your group, a fellow passenger, your tour guide, is arrested. That puts a damper on your holiday.
Never mind. Besides, you are married. It is only a day or two stopover. You are planning on a round-the-world flight tour for your honeymoon. Round the world to New Zealand or Australia can be cheaper than a direct flight. So I was told by a fellow passenger on Singapore Airlines.
But other tourists are worried about one country. That leg of your trip is cancelled. The whole of your tour is in jeopardy.
People may book holidays up to a year ahead. People might deliberately cancel and go elsewhere. Or they might just have a nagging feeling that a particular country is not a good place to visit. The reason has been forgotten. But the negativity remains.
I believe that is the reason for 'gut feelings', 'instincts'. You read or experience a bad event. You forget the event. But you are left with an uneasy feeling about person, or country.
Could anything good come out of this for the tourist? They might cancel the law because of its possible or real effect on tourism. You might then be out of danger, no risk, but be offered bargain holidays.
Useful Websites
https://www.flightcentre.co.uk/flights/round-the-world-flights/trip-planner?
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