It’s not illegal to be gay Indonia, but police are crackg down anyway - The Washgton Post

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• 'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY
• IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY INDONIA, BUT POLICE ARE CRACKG DOWN ANYWAY

'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY

Muny, as gay marriage is illegal Indonia.

Most Indonians held fairly relaxed views about homosexualy, which was never officially recent years, nservative Islam has gaed ground the untry, and now some fear s fluence is growg, even as s ranks rema a mory Parliament. “But gay and lbian Indonians, who, of urse, are upl and they n’t be married, they are pletely exposed. ”Police have prevly arrted dozens of gay men for vlatg an anti-pornography law, but now, all gay upl who live together are subject to possible ph for the overhl was backed by Vice Print Ma’f Am, an Islamic cleric and the former chair of the Indonian Ulema Council, the untry’s top body for Islamic scholars, acrdg to two people who spoke on the ndn of anonymy bee they were not thorized to disclose the tails of private nversatns.

Ma’f had prevly lled for “stern regulatns” on the sexual activi of gay a reversal, lawmakers on Tuday restated a provisn makg illegal to attack “the honor or digny” of both Indonia’s print and vice print, a le that was stck down by the Constutnal Court 2006. Mahasiswa Jogja Gay @gayjogja19 + FollowFollowg Mahasiswa Teknik Yogyakarta yang sa nanana ID:781995742806151168 lendar_today30-09-2016 23:14:48 7, 5K Tweets 8, 1K Followers 780 Followg Follow People Edzhar? 50 / 175 || move to @uncutrezz + FollowFollowg Alv Jangan keluar sendirian. All members of the gay muny should be able to travel where they want and enjoy the experienc Indonia has to give, but ’s important to be aware of the suatn before travelg.

IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY INDONIA, BUT POLICE ARE CRACKG DOWN ANYWAY

The Legal Suatn In Gay Indonia.

As stands, same-sex sexual activy is still legal most provc although there is a strong movement to crimalize gay sex and is currently beg discsed ernment.

An anti-pornography law that also forbids sex parti and ‘viant sexual acts’ are often over-broadly terpreted and ed to target LGBT people; this is ed as the exce behd the growg number of police raids on meetg pots for the Indonian gay muny. Islamic anizatns have put a lot of prsure on the ernment to crack down on the gay populatn, and sce 2016 there has been a rise anti-LGBT rhetoric g om policians and public figur, as policians try to e moral issu to w vot. Tradnally Indonian society, there was a fair amount of tolerance towards gay people, provid they stayed discreet and quiet about their private liv.