Indonia Police Deta 51 Men Jakarta 'Gay Spa' Raid

Contents:

• GAY JAKARTA, JAVA
• GAY JAKARTA, JAVA
• INDONIA’S CRACKDOWN ON GAY MEN MOV FROM BARS INTO THE HOME
• INDONIA'S GAY MUNY DRIVEN UNRGROUND AFTER POLICE RAIDS
• JAKARTA GAY CLUB RAID LEADS TO MORE THAN 100 MEN ARRTED
• INDONIA: INVTIGATE POLICE RAID ON ‘GAY PARTY’
• ATLANTIS GYM DAN SNA, TEMPAT PTA GAY BEROMZET RP 26 JUTA SEHARI
• INDONIA POLICE DETA 51 MEN JAKARTA 'GAY SPA' RAID
• GAY JAKARTA TRAVEL GUI
• INDONIA 'SENTENC EIGHT STRIPPERS AND STAFF TO TWO YEARS PRISON' FOLLOWG RAID ON GAY CLUB
• ATLANTIS JAKARTA - SULJETTUVA MIEHILLE TARKOETTU SNA MORNI SIST JA TILAT.JAKARTAMENUHOTELLHOTELLIEN ALENNSETBAAR & KLUBVITIKENTTäKPATMATKATCY ​​GUIHOMOKARTTAATLANTIS JAKARTA - CLOSED
• GAY JAKARTA, JAVA

GAY JAKARTA, JAVA

Although homosexualy is legal most parts of Indonia, is wily believed that the unary state of the Republic of Indonia is anti-lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT), wh ernment officials makg the four-letter acronym a toxic symbol.

In another cint, the police Indonia’s pal cy of Jakarta raid the Atlantis gym and sna arrtg about 140 mostly gay or bisexual members. But the Atlantis was more than a “gay club, ” was also a public health outreach centre—a well-known hub for HIV tn, ttg, and unsellg for mal who have sex wh mal.

GAY JAKARTA, JAVA

” The legislatn would pel gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people to put up wh treatment at the relig-based treatment centr that would be opened across the State.

The draft laws impact the LGBT muny specifilly, as gay marriage is not legal Indonia. Also, dividuals nvicted of a public act of gay sex uld be sentenced to up to 18 months prison which uld extend up to ne years if evince of abe or vio of the act is produced.

INDONIA’S CRACKDOWN ON GAY MEN MOV FROM BARS INTO THE HOME

Disappotgly, most of the polil parti support the proposed legislatn prohibg homosexualy and recent years have seen a rise of hard-le, policized Islam which has moved om the edge to the centre of polics.

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INDONIA'S GAY MUNY DRIVEN UNRGROUND AFTER POLICE RAIDS

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JAKARTA GAY CLUB RAID LEADS TO MORE THAN 100 MEN ARRTED

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GAYa Nantara is the natnal gay magaze, wh webse, om the glbt muny center Surabaya. Utopia, the gay Asia web portal, has up-to-date bs listgs for Jakarta, along wh other Javane ci. Travel Gay Asia is another regnal webse wh Indonian listgs.

Jakarta100bars lists bars, clubs, rtrants, cludg gay plac, English - "the bt nightlife Jakarta.

INDONIA: INVTIGATE POLICE RAID ON ‘GAY PARTY’

For map lotns and webse lks to the bs below, and more, see our gay Jakarta listgs pag, cludg hotels & gutho and mms and galleri. Nightlife & gay scen. The up-ont gay scene has always been small for such a large cy, but Jakarta was once nsired by ternatnal partiers to have had one of the wilst nightclub scen the world, and l between genrs and cultur often blurred wh wispread e of E the clubs.

Appolo (Bellag Boutique Mall UG Level, Jalan Mega Kungan Barat VII) - CLOSED - popular upsle Wednday-Saturday gay dance club and lounge the central bs district mall, erotic male go-go strippers, karaoke and drag shows until 4am; lounge bar 7pm-1am nightly (except Sundays). 3), a gay-popular Bellag Boutique Mall fé/rtrant, serv French-style cuise; by most nights but pecially on weekends.

ATLANTIS GYM DAN SNA, TEMPAT PTA GAY BEROMZET RP 26 JUTA SEHARI

Ostensibly straight, had a weekend gay subtext among the younger guys. Jakarta has several gay male-oriented sna/massage parlors and several more hotel facili, outwardly straight but discreetly cisy spots for lols and visors to mix; the hotels Meridien, Millenium, Mulia and Sultan among them. Millennium Hotel Sirih (Jalan Haji Fachd 3, Jalan Thamr District), small but good facili mastream hotel, popular wh gay men; sna and steam room, gym, outdoor pool, body scbs and massage servic.

Swiss-Belhotel Mangga Bar (Jalan Karti Raya 57), North Jakarta mastream hotel wh gym, large door pool, steam room, dry sna, spa and massage servic; popular wh lol gay men. Life for gay men Jakarta beme more difficult 2017 as police raid the Atlantis Sna one Sunday eveng last May, and taed over 140 male staff and ctomers, cludg four foreigners.

INDONIA POLICE DETA 51 MEN JAKARTA 'GAY SPA' RAID

Homosexualy per se is not illegal most of the natn, and there are long-standg tradns of same-sex bondg. Even before events of this year, the prev two years had seen closgs of some gay bs and webs, and the removal of sexually suggtive imagery by those that remaed. Print Joko Widodo had said to the BBC that "there should be no discrimatn agast anyone, " but ments by other officials enuraged discrimatn agast, and physil attacks on gay men by both law enforcement officials and lol vigilant.

GAY JAKARTA TRAVEL GUI

The fense mister, Ryamizard Ryacudu, has lled homosexualy a natnal secury threat; part of a "proxy war" waged by foreign stat. The webse of Appolo, the gay nightclub is down, their twter is ozen, and the club was reported to be closed a November 2017 Travel Gay Asia review.

The facebook page of T1, the other gay sna which reopened after Ramadan, still works low-profile mo whout recent updat, but may also have closed. For two long reads on both tradnal and changg attus the untry, see: the May 2017 paper by Mirna Nadia: Shiftg Boundari and Contentns: The Regulatn of “Victimls Crim” Indonia; and the Wikipedia article, Homosexualy Indonia.

Other recent articl: Indonia’s Crackdown on Gay Men Mov From Bars Into the Home by Jefey Hutton, ©The New York Tim, Dec 20, 2017. Is Indonia really gog to hand out five years' jail for gay sex?

INDONIA 'SENTENC EIGHT STRIPPERS AND STAFF TO TWO YEARS PRISON' FOLLOWG RAID ON GAY CLUB

The Atlantis was a gay sna a nservative untry, but given the generally live-and-let-live i of the Indonian pal’s night life, Mr.

ATLANTIS JAKARTA - SULJETTUVA MIEHILLE TARKOETTU SNA MORNI SIST JA TILAT.JAKARTAMENUHOTELLHOTELLIEN ALENNSETBAAR & KLUBVITIKENTTäKPATMATKATCY ​​GUIHOMOKARTTAATLANTIS JAKARTA - CLOSED

Handoko’s fay that he had been sentenced absentia to two years and three months prison, nvicted of vlatg Indonia’s antipornography law, which clus a ban on striptease Indonia, the world’s largt Mlim-majory untry, homosexualy has generally been tolerated, if margalized. But that began to change last year, when the thori, unr prsure om right-wg Islamic groups, started arrtg gay men what experts say are unprecented numbers, raidg not jt bars and snas but hotel rooms and private crackdown began November 2016, when the police broke up a party South Jakarta and taed 13 men.

The most recent cint was October, when 51 men were arrted at what is thought to be Jakarta’s last gay sna. ”Historilly, gay and transgenr Indonians have been accepted — if poorly unrstood — as long as they married people of the oppose sex and had children, said Tom Boellstorff, an anthropologist at the Universy of California, Irve, and thor of “The Gay Archipelago: Sexualy and Natn Indonia.

”Gay men have been ned public the tonomo provce of Aceh, where Shariah law is enforced.

GAY JAKARTA, JAVA

But the vast majory of Indonia, anti-gay vlence has been rare, and persecutn of gay people by the state has been even rarer. While vigilante groups sometim got headl by shuttg down gay film ftivals or transgenr bety pageants, such vlence was not state-sanctned, Mr.

“Most Indonians had no ia what ‘gay’ meant, ” he said.