Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Indonesian Police Crackdown on LGBT Community in Aceh

Police raided several beauty salons in the conservative province in Aceh, rounding up a group of transgender women who had been accused of making fun of young boys. The police provided the reasoning as violating the province’s religious laws and had to hold back a crowd of locals from attacking the transgender group.


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Police proceeded to “re-educate” the Trans people by cutting their hair and demanding them to talk in masculine voices. The police chief comments that the re-education is necessary as “their numbers are growing”. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia where homosexuality is illegal and LGBT people are often criminalized with an anti-pornography law.

Aceh has been granted autonomy to be governed by Islamic law since 2001. The Trans women will be arrested until they complete their “training program” to become manlier.

Amnesty International in Indonesia has spoken out against the treatment of the transgender women saying it is a breach of “human rights” and needs to be investigated.

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