Indonesia

LGBTI Rights in Indonesia


ADDED ON: 05/19/2023

LGBT campaigns through pop culture and the Indonesian LGBT Movement

Support for equal rights for the LGBT community through mainstream media and pop culture has become increasingly widespread in the last few decades. Starting from films, music videos, TV series, and social…

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ADDED ON: 05/15/2023

The transgender Indonesian Muslims trying to secure their future

The future of Indonesia's only Islamic community centre for transgender women is in jeopardy after its leader, Shinta Ratri, died in February - and the government says it cannot support it. There…

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ADDED ON: 03/08/2023

Indonesian media cautioned against anti-LGBT progaganda

Activists and an independent journalists’ body in Indonesia have warned the media against giving undue importance to politicians' efforts to exploit Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues ahead of polls in…

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ADDED ON: 02/16/2023

“This Is Why We Became Activists”

In June 2021, Amani’s girlfriend ended their relationship. Amani told Human Rights Watch that for months prior to the breakup, her girlfriend’s parents had been “refusing to let her leave the house”…

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ADDED ON: 12/28/2022

Indonesian soldiers jailed for having gay sex as anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown continues

Two Indonesian soldiers were kicked out of the army and have been sentenced to seven months in jail for having gay sex. Gay sex is currently legal for civilians in most of…

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ADDED ON: 12/18/2022

Forgotten victims of Indonesia’s new sex outside marriage ban

Sweeping changes to Indonesia’s laws, which will make sex between unmarried partners illegal, has made headlines around the world. Much of the global bewilderment has been on how that might affect couples…

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ADDED ON: 12/11/2022

Will Indonesia’s new ‘no sex before marriage’ laws target LGBT couples?

Indonesia has just approved a long debated new penal code and a provision which has sex and co-habitation outside of marriage illegal has caused alarm. As soon as the new laws were…

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ADDED ON: 12/09/2022

Indonesia’s new sex laws ‘nail in coffin’ for LGBTQ rights

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s legislation banning sex outside marriage represents a major new threat to the LGBTQ community’s rights in the conservative country, where same-sex unions are not recognised. “It’s another nail in the…

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ADDED ON: 12/07/2022

Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim…

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ADDED ON: 12/05/2022

US Cancels LGBTI+ Special Envoy RI Visit

The US Government has announced the cancellation of a Visit to Indonesia by President Biden’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Jessica Stern. The…

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ADDED ON: 10/16/2022

In Indonesia, ‘LGBT’ label is linked to criminal guilt amid ‘societal homophobia’

When Indonesian actor Rizky Billar’s spouse reported him to the police last month for alleged domestic abuse, social media users buzzed with chatter about him being a “wife-beater”. But as the scandal…

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ADDED ON: 09/02/2022

Peru opens torture investigation over trans man’s death in Indonesia

LIMA, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who died while in custody in…

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