Shannon Power – An Indonesia religious leader said people were too 'permissive' of LGBTI people. He also said their 'apathetic' attitude was letting the LGBTI 'movement thrive'.
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April 27, 2018
Shannon Power – Indonesian authorities intercepted a shipment of 'LGBT comics' at a major post office hub in Indonesia.
April 25, 2018
Shannon Power – Indonesia's Education Ministry canceled an event created to give advice to people on how to 'save' children from the LGBTI community.
April 24, 2018
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Shannon Power – Indonesia's plans to criminalize homosexuality have been put on hold giving the country's LGBTI community a much needed respite.
April 23, 2018
Jasmine Andersson – Indonesia's LGBT+ community has been granted a temporary reprieve by the government as a bill to criminalise homosexuality has been put on hold.
April 19, 2018
Shannon Power – A man who gave up a lucrative career to seek asylum in Canada, said moving away from Indonesia stopped him 'being gay'.
April 18, 2018
Shannon Power – An Indonesian man has allegedly killed another man for adding him to a LGBTI group on WhatsApp.
April 13, 2018
Shannon Power – One of the world's youngest nations is powering ahead on LGBTI rights and has come up with a clever way to promote inclusion.
April 3, 2018
Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Rights activists called on Tuesday for Indonesia's Aceh province to release four people detained on suspicion of having homosexual sex, amid concerns over the pe
April 2, 2018
Shannon Power – Vigilantes have once again raided the private residence of people they suspect to be LGBTI in Indonesia.
Josh Jackman – Two Indonesian men have been arrested for having gay sex.
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release four people detained in Aceh under a local ordinance that criminalizes same-sex conduct, Human Rights Wat
March 27, 2018
Shannon Power – One of Indonesia's most powerful politicians has warned LGBT people, drugs and promiscuity are running 'rampant' and 'damaging' the country.
March 24, 2018
Anne Barker – Transgender women in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province are losing their jobs and incomes in the wake of police raids that saw several beauty salons shut down.
March 23, 2018
Wahyu Amuk, Padang – If Indonesia does not properly address the era of globalisation and modernisation there will be negative impacts with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
March 21, 2018
Shannon Power – Australia and other Asian leaders may have missed a golden opportunity to confront Indonesia on the increasing persecution of LGBTI people there.
March 14, 2018
Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A man identified as N and a transgender person identified as M were arrested for allegedly being intimate in a beauty salon in Emperum, Banda Aceh.
Vigilantism in the name of ultra-conservative morality continues unabated in Aceh, the only province of Indonesia given special autonomy to enact sharia-based laws.
March 12, 2018
Laurence Barber – Indonesia's government is reportedly rounding up trans people in Jakarta and forcing them into 'rehabilitation' for the 'violation' of being transgender.
Meka Beresford – Police in Indonesia have raided the home of two women accused of being a "lesbian couple".
March 10, 2018
All over the world, the rights of trans people – to be free from torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, the right to freedom of expression, a private life, and protection from discri
March 8, 2018
Jakarta – The Jakarta Social Agency has classified waria, or transgender women, as people with social dysfunctional traits, which has led to many waria being rounded up and sent to reha
March 7, 2018
Shannon Power – A group of vigilantes raided the home of two men who they alleged were gay. They then turned them over to police in Indonesia.
Jakarta – A West Jakarta official has admitted to ignoring the requests of a mother who sought the release of her arrested transgender daughter from a social house.
February 25, 2018
Ben Westcott – When Ael left home to go to school in Jakarta, his parents warned him to be careful in the big city. "Be a kind person," his mother told him.
February 19, 2018
Shannon Power – Another Indonesian city has set up a taskforce to monitor and police LGBTI people.
Iwan Supriyatna, Depok – The Depok municipal government is working to anticipate the spread of socially deviant lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) behaviour among youth in th
February 15, 2018
Meka Beresford – A group of trans women who were stripped and beaten in Indonesia have spoken out about their ordeal.
February 14, 2018
Aceh, the only region in Indonesia granted special autonomy to enact explicitly sharia-based laws, has been in the news a lot of late due to their persecution of the LGBT community (inc
Indonesian authorities are completely failing to protect the transgender women who were appallingly ill-treated and humiliated by police in North Aceh on January 27, some of whom have s
February 12, 2018
Shannon Power, Aceh – the only province in Indonesia to rule with Islamic Sharia Law – has furthered its clampdown on the LGBTI community, this time banning trans women from working in
February 11, 2018
The Muhammadiyah Youth Greater Aceh regional board (PDPM) in cooperation with the Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) held a seminar on the theme "The Dangers of Lesbian, Gay, Bi
February 9, 2018
Konradus Epa – Indonesia has persuaded Google to pull 73 applications and shut down 169 websites related to the country's LBGT community.
Meka Beresford – An Indonesian MP has said that he believes LGBTQ+ people should be sentenced to death or a life in prison for their acts.
Kanupriya Kapoor, Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Zulfikar Fahd, an openly gay man, says he flew from Indonesia to Canada late last month and claimed asylum on grounds that he faced d
Greater Aceh regent Mawardi Ali has again issued a circular. This time the regional government has banned beauty salons from being run by or employing transgender women (waria).
February 8, 2018
Kyle Knight – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein is urging Indonesia's government to scrap clauses in a new draft criminal code that would discrimin
February 7, 2018
Jakarta – The notification about the cancellation of a meeting to approve the draft of the Criminal Code (KUHP) on Thursday last week came quite suddenly." I was only informed last nigh
Depok – The Depok city Indonesian Underground Social Movement (GMBI) has held a rally in front of the Depok Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) opposing the legalisation of lesbian
February 6, 2018
Robertus Belarminus, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has expressed its appreciation to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'
Jakarta – Senior Adjunct Commissioner Ahmad Untung Surianata alias Untung Sangaji, Chief of the North Aceh District Police Department, feels that the threat posed by transvestites is wo
February 5, 2018
Indonesian police said Sunday they would press ahead with an investigation into officers accused of publicly shaming transgender people in conservative Aceh province despite an angry pr
February 4, 2018
Jeffrey Hutton – Amid Indonesia's latest bout of moral panic, that has seen its transgendered citizens rounded up by police and politicians calling for outright bans on sex outside marr
February 3, 2018
Tolerance seems to be moving backwards in Indonesia as the Health Ministry on Friday said it is about to publish a medical guide where it has classified homosexuality as a mental disord
February 2, 2018
Rusdy Nurdiansyah, Depok – The Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) is paying serious attention to efforts to combat the spread of deviant sexual behaviour such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and
The North Aceh regional police recently arrested 12 transgender women (waria) and forced them to become normal men again.
Aceh Governor Aceh Irwandi Yusuf has spoken at a rally by Islamic organizations (ormas) supporting the actions of North Aceh regency police chief Assistant Superintendent Untung Sangaji
Protesters from some 147 organisations (ormas) held a protest action at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in the Acehnese provincial capital of Banda Aceh on Friday February 2.
Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Transgender people have been fleeing the sharia-ruled Indonesian province of Aceh amid fears of further violence, an exodus that comes in the same week the national