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Advot have nceled a regnal gatherg of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists Indonia’s pal, Jakarta, rponse to harassment and ath threats om Mlim nservativ.

12 Juli 2023Sumber gambar, SOPA/GettyKeterangan gambar, Foto iltrasiPemertah Kabupaten Gat, Jawa Barat, mengahkan aturan yang melarang aktivas Lbian, Gay, Biseksual, dan Transgenr (LGBT) di wilayah tersebut.

Peraturan Bupati (Perbup) bernomor 47 tahun 2023 u disebut sebagai implementasi dari Peraturan Daerah (Perda) Nomor 13 Tahun 2015 tentang Anti Perbuatan Maksiat yang menggolongkan perilaku gay, lbian, biseksual, dan pedofilia, sebagai perbuatan Gat, Rudy Gunawan, menyebut peraturan u derbkan menyikapi banyaknya kas pelecehan seksual, mengkatnya kas pengidap HIV/AIDS, dan keberadaan gp homoseksual pada laman Facebook.

Rudy kemudian menghubungkan km homoseksual ngan 26 kas sodomi yang dangani oleh Das Pengendalian Pendud, Keluarga Berenna, Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perldungan Anak Kabupaten Gat pada Mei 2023. Hendrika Mayora Victoria, 35, a Catholic transgenr and ordator of Fajar Sikka, a same-sex advocy group, said, "Indonia is not ready to accept diversy and is creasgly homophobic. Ban on extramaral sex n be applied to all same-sex uplIndonia is among the least gay-iendly plac the worldIndonia’s new crimal will fully e to effect after Print Joko Widodo signs .

Jakarta, CNN Indonia -- Agenda pertemuan aktivis Lbian, Gay, Biseksual, Transgenr (LGBT) Se-ASEAN melalui agenda ASEAN Queer Advocy Week (AAW) batal digelar di Jakarta. I will also e this acronym “LGBT, ” wh the unrstandg that refers to a range of inti cludg gay, lbi (or lbian), tomboi (or priawan, or laki-laki trans; very roughly, female to male transgenred persons), and waria (very roughly, male to female transgenred persons). The terms ed the official document were that men (pria) nnot appear wh gaya berpakaian kewanaan (feme drs), riasan kewanaan (makp), effemate gtur or movements (bahasa tubuh kewanaan), or an effemate way of speakg (gaya bira kewanaan).

The prohibn also extend to g “terms often ed among effemate men” (ilah dan ungkapan khas yang serg dipergunakan kalangan pria kewanaan); this is an direct reference to gay slang (bahasa gay). Al-Fatah, which had been open sce 2008, received ternatnal attentn as one of the only stutns of Islamic tn for homosexual or transgenr Mlims worldwi.

Also on Febary 24, the Indonian Psychiatrists Associatn (Perhimpunan Dokter Spialis Kedokteran Jiwa Indonia) announced would classify homosexualy, bisexualy, and transgenrism as treatable mental disorrs. By 1993, the Indonian Mistry of Health’s Guil for the Diagnosis and Classifitn of Mental Disorrs “ma no mentn of homosexualy except a brief note statg that is part of the diversy of human sexualy” (UNDP 2014:24), though “genr inty disorr” did appear.

The cisn to classify homosexualy, bisexualy, and transgenrism as treatable mental disorrs was jtified terms of a 2014 law on mental health, but that law only referred general terms of “people wh psychiatric problems” and “mental disorrs. Some journalists and scholars poted out the misunrstandg and misreprentatn behd the anti-LGBT cints, or emphasized the history of homosexualy and transgenrism the archipelago. Some of the participants have remd that they see homosexualy as patible wh their fah, and have even suggted piety (or immersn hot water!

Prr anti-LGBT cints, like the seri of attacks on gay and waria events the late 1990s and the attack leadg to the ncellatn of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s regnal Asian nference 2010 Surabaya, were lked to the FPI and siar hardle Islamic groups (see Boellstorff 2004, 2014).

This phrase has historilly not been ed Indonia ( do not appear once my book The Gay Archipelago, published 2005, precisely bee I had never enuntered the term Indonia to that pot). I veloped this ncept when seekg to unrstand what seem to be the first precursors of the “LGBT crisis”: an attack September 1999 agast an attempted natnal meetg of the “Indonian Lbian and Gay Network” Surabaya, and the vlent breakup of a gay and waria show held near Yogyakarta November 2000. While “homophobia” and “heterosexism” are sometim ed terchangeably, there is value distguishg them.

Homophobia refers to a gut-level sense of disgt or repulsn to the prence of homosexualy (often nflated wh effemacy men and masculy women). So an anti-LGBT law is heterosexist but not homophobic, and the same n be said of the burecracy that stut . But not always: there are well-documented s of a relative lack of heterosexism even where there is homophobia, and a relative lack of homophobia even where there is heterosexism.

One immediate thg we n do wh this more precise analytil lens is note that State Straightism is a form of heterosexism, not homophobia. I ed the term “polil homophobia” to intify s where polil heterosexism transforms to homophobia directed at attempts by LGBT persons to claim public space, legal regnn, and social cln.

Polil homophobia entails the addn of vlence to what had been laws and polici, and the addn of phobic emotn—anger and disgt—to what had been belief and iology. What magnifi such ncern is that as I noted above, while heterosexism and homophobia are distct, each n strengthen the other.

This is precisely what happened when on Febary 22, 2016, there were news reports of threats to make arrts at an outdoor area a cy near Surabaya equented by gay men and other men who have sex wh men, which clud lls for more lightg and other “remolg” so the area would be ls hospable to such socializg. On March 12, 2016, there was an arrt of eight men at a well-known gay socializg area Surabaya, plete wh approvg media verage. While such police raids on gay socializg areas have taken place the past, they have been equent, and this one occurred the ntext of creasg threats of vlence leadg LGBT groups to set up safe ho and avoid gog to their most offic.

The “LGBT crisis” is ntributg to a suffotg expansn of State Straightism that threatens the posn of LGBT Indonians that natn’s civil society, and uld lead to new forms of pervasive, sanctned homophobia. First Prciple: Homosexualy and Transgenrism Have Been Part of Many Tradns the Indonian Archipelago.

As many people have poted out (cludg que recently rponse to anti-LGBT cints) homosexualy and transgenrism did not sudnly wash up on Indonia’s shor. Much of this was not public—unregnized romance, love, and sire lost to history—but sometim homosexualy and transgenrism were formally acknowledged some fashn. The histori of homosexualy and transgenrism Indonia are varied and map poorly onto ntemporary LGBT liv.