- Homosexuality
- ⚢Varies by Region
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion polls in particular regions of Indonesia have found that homophobic beliefs persist.
Indonesia Surveys
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 7 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Indonesia.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in Indonesia is varies by region.
23/2002) of the same sex or gender is not criminalized in the Indonesian Penal Code.
Same-sex sexual activity in Indonesia is legal (not criminalized), with the exception of the Aceh province.
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Aceh 2015
Same-sex marriage in Indonesia is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Indonesia is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Indonesia is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Indonesia is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Indonesia is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Indonesia is no protections.
Theoretically there is a guarantee of protection against discriminatory practices based on any
ground in the Constitution and the Human Rights Law (No. 39/1999). Similarly, the Labor Law
(No. 13/2003) prohibits discrimination in employment. However, this is little known in LGBT
communities, and has not been used in court in a case to challenge discrimination against LGBT
people.
LGBT housing discrimination in Indonesia is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Indonesia is ambiguous.
(1) Adoption of children by single parents can only be carried out by Indonesian citizens after obtaining permission from the Minister.
The granting of permits as intended in paragraph (1) can be delegated to the head of a social agency in the province.
Under this technicality, a LGBT prospective parent may be able to adopt while single, no known case has been documented of minister approval.
Intersex infant surgery in Indonesia is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Indonesia is illegal.
We compiled and translated the tweets from the Indonesian Air Force’s Official Account responding to questions about recruiting LGBTQIA+ identifying people to the Indonesian Military. Here are all the tweets in chronological order:
1. When being asked if members of the LGBTQIA+ community can serve in the Indonesian Military, here are their response: (https://twitter.com/_TNIAU/status/950706476623933446)
Ooohhh, cannot (shocked face)
Upon selection there are psychological tests, LGBT is a mental disorder. If there are many recruits that are mentally healthy why must we accept the mentally deficient?
2. The twitter went viral and there were some criticisms, which they responded with: (https://twitter.com/_TNIAU/status/950723833606037505)
(The word “normal” means heterosexual)
Responding to many mentions that went in -> until right now there are still many Military recruits that have a normal sexual orientation.
Members of the Indonesian Military are governed by military norms including religious norms & laws, so (members) must be physically & mentally healthy
3. In response to the numerous tweets arguing that homosexuality is not a mental illness, they responded with: (https://twitter.com/_TNIAU/status/950733029894381569)
(“Airmin” is how they say Air Force Admin)
(“UI” is short for the University of Indonesia, the top University in Indonesia)
In response to the debate if LGBT is a mental disorder or not, "airmin" will give you a Link containing an opinion from one of the doctors of UI.
https://nasional.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/umum/16/03/23/o4hkwh365-guru-besar-ui-lgbt-penyakit-gangguan-jiwa
4. One person replied that it is an opinion of one person and does not equate the scientific burden of proof. They responded with: (https://twitter.com/_TNIAU/status/950737066127536128)
As an member of the Military who is pious to the Almighty God and as a Muslim the Al-Quran is enough to be a scientific proof, are there any higher knowledge and more credible than the Holy Bible? In the Holy Bible LGBT is not only prohibited but also “cursed”
5. The Indonesian Air Force responded to more replies with this final tweet: (https://twitter.com/_tniau/status/950738661905121281)
Same-sex relationships is a sin am I right? (smile emoji) I’m sorry yaa, even animals are never wrong in their (mating) targets
Blood donations by MSMs in Indonesia is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Indonesia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Indonesia is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Indonesia.
- Bali
- Bangka Belitung
- Banten
- Bengkulu
- Gorontalo
- Jambi
- Jawa Barat
- Jawa Tengah
- Jawa Timur
- Kalimantan Utara
- Kalimantan Barat
- Kalimantan Selatan
- Kalimantan Tengah
- Kalimantan Timur
- Kepulauan Riau
- Lampung
- Maluku
- Papua Tengah
- Maluku Utara
- Papua Selatan
- Nusa Tenggara Barat
- Nusa Tenggara Timur
- Papua
- Papua Barat Daya
- Riau
- Sulawesi Barat
- Sulawesi Selatan
- Sulawesi Tengah
- Sulawesi Tenggara
- Sulawesi Utara
- Papua Pengunungan
- Sumatera Barat
- Sumatera Selatan
- Sumatera Utara
- Aceh (Autonomous Province)
- Jakarta Raya (Special District)
- Yogyakarta (Special Region)