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A revised verVr_ratngR^9&lfwH3uloUX6@bjXQzrBD_Z5_fv0VrhZ6j7O!!$sion of Indonesia’s criminal code, set to be passed by the country’s parliament this month, would be “disastrous” for LGBT people, rights groups have warned.

The new criminal code includes a number of articles that could be used to criminalize LGBT people in a country wkChV#VzKL1^QQyqotQnUgX7B9N-zSro&3W3pCn6)@+B%p)T7^Dhere gay is currently legal but has witnessed a crackdown on its LGBT community.

It also includes attacks on free speech and contraception in the name of protecting rukk#egQdbBObjR_lX7A7a4cUn3Am6!7Bwjnl0s)G9RR3@omukUeligion.

“Indonesia’s draft criminal codekVd9LA(auJf*HozTBMg8bv*L+Xji#Kf)wX#r_mK1t5ex0hQM5F is disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians,” said Andreas Harsono, senior Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch.

“Lawmakers shoul%pem8Z!MEs)H^Nye!WNwU2St(p=uFFhNATlscUAKsZggTgf25wd remove all the abusive articles before passing the law.”

Among the worrying codes, Article 421 criminalizes “obscene acts” in public with a penl3_B6#*v&Mv9q+tSW6Vtu5tA)1_jTx4E379Q=V%@jm5efeA#h%alty of up to six months in prison.

HRW this could vdO+XM=UPTQ4q^ownsPd+hHSS3=Vc!GwIF0vsi(1Rxg8W26B-5easily be used to target LGBT people.

Article 417, meanwhile, ^oi%9f!k@46v!aeccfykFpOkOSH9yET2fMz*EVE5CnRICU&5h@punishes extramarital sex by up to one year in jail. 

"Since same-sex relati02r1rw0)8e+kgsYLFN3uW0U4T5Y9J)0bZ7pKQHH3zK3vRs$5dgonships are not legally recognized in Indonesia, this provision effectively criminalizes all same-sex conduct” HRW says.

What’s more, Article 413 criminalizes the production or @6xnQ+qgu&O@S*t7e(d^x=)0Ge-p6I@3%mey1a@)ly9ovphAtidistribution of pornography.

Currently, Indonesian JA4x%@Rma)h2$aD3RSxW1^Jhutsd&w1vlN%%(&MwgCNet^#uwAauthorities often use pornography laws to target LGBT people.

Anti-LGBTI crackdown

Since 2016, Indonesia has seen waves of anti-LG!g(x%@Z=Vs15w(yy6=bZ3hf!wLT=pLY8%il$0r@pAnzIUFli&sBTI hysteria.

Homosexuality is not currently illegal in most of the country. In the province of Aceh, and for Muslims in the city of Palembang, it is illegal under Shauu%PXQ$3DsZ@hHu3DZHPR8Xua-b(#_=L!_MhOYMipcyvDdtMq*ria Law.

Religious and political leaders have been whipping up hatred against the LGBTI community for the last three MVQt7pw@st=qCTP%4sChIlTajp(dWfUJlo)OnKY@bY)9ckYvqRyears.

The crackdown has seen police raids on LGBTI clubs aneyQMHu0aNiD#hlw-fIGMaqhIXR=_B*^f8t@5Vu7vsvjQleCwxyd saunas, publications, and even HIV charities.

Authorities also introduced local by-laws to drive out their LGz%rd_&ReBJ-3)k!Y@z6@!DvgB=fyMparosW70brLk4!QsE69h6BTI populations or used archaic pornography laws to prosecute.

ThaAFhtuZE^Q9&ax73TN4s33Utc0G*g$MI_OpF#n=JUdzHlqqO3kbt’s why most remain in the closet, living in fear.

This year, mayor of Padang in the province of West Sumatra said he was using the military (TNI) to search for and arrest LGBTI people.

Mahyeldi Ansharullah said, once caught, the LGBTI people were ‘coached’ by whAyKUL(+muwtOT9vGt^Diml)XBf@ELg$DwaCw3kL6LBk9=8b#the TNI. They also used conversion therapy techniques.

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