![]() ![]() ![]() Indonesia is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which guarantees freedoms of expression, assembly, and association, as well as the freedom from discrimination. This includes the revised Criminal Code, adopted in late 2022, which effectively criminalizes all same-sex activity, among other provisions that are deeply damaging to human rights. ![]() The cancellation comes after years of rising anti-LGBT harassment in Indonesia, much of it fueled or perpetrated by the government. Organizers plan to hold the event elsewhere, but have not yet announced when or where it will take place. Religious conservatives and anti-LGBT groups in Indonesia publicly called for the government to prevent the conference from taking place, demonized LGBT people in the press and on social media, and targeted organizers and participants with harassment, doxxing, and death threats. The ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, a regional organization based in the Philippines, had planned to hold their annual ASEAN Queer Advocacy Week in Jakarta in coordination with Arus Pelangi, an Indonesian group, and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, based in Thailand. © 2022 REUTERS/Willy KurniawanĪdvocates have canceled a regional gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, in response to harassment and death threats from Muslim conservatives. Protesters hold up signs prior to passage of a new Indonesian criminal code that will ban sex outside marriage, cohabitation between unmarried couples, insulting the president, and expressing views counter to the national ideology, outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 5, 2022. ![]()
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