Surabaya – The cancelled gay-lesbian conference in Surabaya has incited further resistance among the people. The Islamic Forum (FUI) of East Java has sealed the office of GAYa Nusantara at Mojo Kidul street 1/11A, Surabaya.

Chanting prayers, the FUI members sealed the gay community's building and wrote "Gay-Lesbian are Moral Terrorists" on the wall. The East Java FUI spokesman, Jatim Abdurrahman Aziz stated, Friday, that actually FUI only came for a peaceful discussion.

"We've confirmed (the meeting) with Mr. Rafael. He said he was going to accept us. But they weren't there at all and the office building was empty. This is a public manipulation." For that reason, the FUI members padlocked the building and gave the key to the local community leader, Pujo Utomo.

Previously, Rafael Da Costa had stated that since the conference was off, most of the participants who'd arrived already decided to have a vacation in Indonesia instead.

But the East Java FUI chairman Arukat Jaswadi stated, Friday, "We ask the government to immediately deport all the foreign participants (of the gay-lesbian conference)." He was concerned that the cancelled event might be replaced with another kind of gathering which would be substantially the same.

The FUI has traced the movements of the participants from a certain hotel in Kota Batu. The participants, including Dede Utomo (former chairman of GAYa Nusantara), were spotted on several buses. The FUI claimed they will continue observing the movements of the participants. (C5-10/C17-09)