The attacks by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) against the two-week International Q! Film Festival which opened in Jakarta on September 24 is a violation of basic human rights and threatens democracy in Indonesia.
LGBT & Same-Sex Marriage
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September 2010
Statements/Indonesia
Perempuan Mahardhika – September 28, 2010
March 2010
News/Indonesia
Detik.com – March 25, 2010
Support for the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) congress that was planned to be held in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya continues to flow in, although there are many that oppose it.
Statements/Indonesia
Perempuan Mahardhika – March 24, 2010
Allow the ILGA conference in Surabaya to go ahead
Fight all forms of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
Recognise the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to obtain education, healthcare, gainful employment, to organise and to live without fear
Provide prod
September 2007
News/Indonesia
Kompas – September 26, 2007
Jakarta – Transsexuals are opposing the Jakarta regional government bylaw on public order that will soon be coming into effect. They say that the bylaw is discriminative and will criminalise the poor and particular social groups, including transsexuals.
March 2007
News/Aceh
Detik.com – March 8, 2007
Nur Raihan, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of Acehnese women’s activists held a march from the Baiturrahman Great Mosque in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh to the offices of the Aceh Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) on March 8. The action was organised to commemorate International Women’s day.