Gay indonesia

Abstract

Objective

Some homosexuals have a mighty desire to change their sexual orientation to a heterosexual one. This research attempted to understand the Indonesian gay men's motivations to change their sexual orientation.

Method

Using a qualitative analyze desain and a snowball sampling approach, we carried out in-depth interviews with six young adult same-sex attracted men living in two main cities in Indonesia.

Results

We identified three major themes: (1) motivations to adjust sexual orientation, (2) strategies to change sexual orientation, and (3) internal and external factors related to sexual orientation change.

Conclusions

This explore recommends a comprehensive help from mental health services to help individuals speak to the sexual orientation matters.

Keywords:

Homosexual

Heterosexual

Indonesia

Motivation

Sexual orientation

Texto completo

Introduction

Sexual orientation is a long-lasting emotional declare that motivates romantic attraction and the desire for intimate relationships.1 Sexual orientation is also

As the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, Indonesia has no national law against homosexuality other than the Marriage Law. This law states that the only legally acknowledged marriage is between heterosexual couples.

However, wider discrimination against LGBTQ people happens. In the past five years, discrimination against gender and sexual minorities in Indonesia has increased. LGBTQ rights organisation Arus Pelangiidentifies various homophobic acts against gay communities, ranging from bullying to murder.

Indonesian media also play a significant role in producing stigma against LGBTQ communities. Anti-gay media biases are apparent in their headlines, news angles, word choices and selection of sources.

These attacks and stigmas discourage homosexual community members from being visible in Indonesian public and media spaces.

Subverting stigmas

My recent investigate found Indonesian homosexual communities have resorted to using social media to dispel the stigmas.

I conducted the explore from July to January , collecting data (posts, captions, videos, etc) from various so

It's OK to be gay so long as you keep it quiet

John Badalu has been organizing the Q! Film Festival for the past 10 years. It is the biggest gay motion picture festival in Asia and the only one of its benign in a country with a majority of Muslim inhabitants. The year-old says it is achievable to live a pretty free life as a homosexual in Indonesia's big cities but the challenges are increasing.

Last year, the Q! Film Festival was attacked by the radical Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which accused Badalu and his team of demonstrating pornographic films. They threatened to burn down the venues if the festival was not stopped.

Convinced that his organization was on firm ground, Badalu and his team refused and the festival was held in five big cities. A few months before, an international gay conference that was supposed to be held in Surabaya in East Java had been cancelled after coming under attack from the same radical group.

Badalu is not overly concerned. He says it is not just gay people that FPI is targeting, but also other minorities such as members of the Islamic movement Ahmadiyya.

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Last updated: 26 February

Types of criminalisation

Criminalises LGBT people
Criminalises sexual activity between males
Criminalises sexual activity between females
Criminalises the gender expression of transgender people
Maintains discriminatory age of consent

Summary

Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited explicitly in two provinces of Indonesia: Aceh, a conservative Muslim province which practices Shariah rule, and South Sumatra, a Muslim-majority, but less conservative, province. Both provinces hold introduced their criminalising laws since the turn of the twenty-first century. There are also some specific city and district level ordinances that criminalise certain areas within provinces, for example, Padang Panjang in West Sumatra. However, there is no national level law in Indonesia (i.e. penal code provision) which criminalises same-sex sexual activity.

At the federal level there is significant evidence of a ‘anti-pornog