A heated debate at the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2018 in Indonesia, on zina redefinition in Indonesian Penal Code that received both national and international attention, as becoming an interesting study discussing the revival of Zina law in Muslim majority countries. This study examines the contestation over Zina definition between actors. It argues that religious values has become framework to make morality becomes public matter through the law reform, in Indonesian plural Muslims majority country. The contestation between religious and secular took place in the process, as part of ongoing Islamization. The data is collected from media, such as online newspaper and the TV One Indonesian Lawyers Club program where actors were involved in constructing the discourse of gender, sexuality, and its regulation in Indonesia. Hence, this contributes to the discussion on gender and sexuality in Muslims majority countries, where religious and secular ideas are contested.
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