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The Indonesian police have arrested 58 men, including several foreigners racing on a gay saunas, the official said on Saturday, the latest sign of controversy against homosexuals in the Muslim majority. Police searched the building in Jakarta, the capital of Jakarta, on Friday night, having a sauna and gym after receiving information from the public to be used for prostitution.
Homosexuality and gay sex are legal everywhere in Indonesia except in conservative Aceh province, but police have used the country’s tough anti-pornography laws or drugs charges to criminalise LGBT people in the past.
Yuwono said six of those detained would be charged under Indonesia’s anti-pornography law, and could face up to sex years in prison.
It is not clear what — if anything — the remaining 52 would be charged with.
Friday’s raid comes at a time of growing hostility towards Indonesia’s small lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Ministers, hardliners and influential Islamic groups have lined up to make anti-LGBT statements in public recently.
In similar incident in May, 141 men were detained for allegedly taking part in a sex party in Jakarta promoted as “The Wild One”.
Andreas Harsono, senior Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch, condemned the arrests.
“This is part of the ongoing anti-LGBT campaign in Indonesia that has been going on since January last year,” he told AFP.
“Human Rights Watch demands police release them and not make up charges against them.”
He said the increase in discrimination towards LGBT Indonesians was related to the rise of conservative Islam.
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The Indonesian police have arrested 58 men, including several foreigners racing on a gay saunas, the official said on Saturday, the latest sign of controversy against homosexuals in the Muslim majority. Police searched the building in Jakarta, the capital of Jakarta, on Friday night, having a sauna and gym after receiving information from the public to be used for prostitution.
Homosexuality and gay sex are legal everywhere in Indonesia except in conservative Aceh province, but police have used the country’s tough anti-pornography laws or drugs charges to criminalise LGBT people in the past.
Yuwono said six of those detained would be charged under Indonesia’s anti-pornography law, and could face up to sex years in prison.
It is not clear what — if anything — the remaining 52 would be charged with.
Friday’s raid comes at a time of growing hostility towards Indonesia’s small lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Ministers, hardliners and influential Islamic groups have lined up to make anti-LGBT statements in public recently.
In similar incident in May, 141 men were detained for allegedly taking part in a sex party in Jakarta promoted as “The Wild One”.
Andreas Harsono, senior Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch, condemned the arrests.
“This is part of the ongoing anti-LGBT campaign in Indonesia that has been going on since January last year,” he told AFP.
“Human Rights Watch demands police release them and not make up charges against them.”
He said the increase in discrimination towards LGBT Indonesians was related to the rise of conservative Islam.
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