I say it was only a matter of time before a class of those monitored because of their “dangerousness” happen. Not surprisingly this dangerousness has been linked to sex.

Indonesia’s Papua province is set to pass a bylaw that requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, a lawmaker said on Saturday.
Under the bylaw, which has caused uproar among human rights activists, patients who had shown “actively sexual behavior” could be implanted with a microchip to monitor their activity, lawmaker John Manangsang said…

If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty, he said without elaborating.

Who does this really protect?

The number of HIV/AIDS cases per 100,000 people in Papua is nearly 20 times the national average in Indonesia, according to a government study in 2007.

Health experts say the disease has been spreading rapidly from prostitutes to housewives in the past years.

High rates of promiscuity, rituals in some Papuan tribes where partner swapping takes place, poor education about AIDS and lack of condoms are among factors that cause the spread of the disease there.

Communities already marginalized because of their health status, their work in the sex industry, their origin as indigenous community members now will be further pushed into the shadows and not receive the information and treatment that could save their lives. Instead of the government stepping up their efforts to work with the people, they have chosen to condemn more to death. Now people will not get tested and move into an even more shadowy realm. That’s the real danger here.

Via / Reuters

Gracias to Jack for passing the info.