The proposal looked unlikely to be adopted, however, as the city's deputy mayor, Ardiansyah Fikri, said that local authorities did not support it.
However he said religious and moral education programmes were being planned to discourage people from public displays of affection in the city.
"Young boys and girls are not shy about behaving intimately in public," he said. "Their morality is already out of control."
In 2010, lawmakers in Sumatra's Jambi province also proposed forcing teenage girls to undergo virginity tests to get into high school but the plan was dropped after opposition from central government.
Indonesia, a nation of more than 240 million people, is struggling to balance the country's rapid modernisation with traditional, mainly Muslim values.
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