- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
History
Homosexual activity in Kepulauan Riau is legal.
Going into effect Jan 3, 2026
Since Aug 9, 2001
Aceh's law on criminalizing "Anal Sex" for Muslim men came into effect on October 23rd, 2015.
Indonesia's proposed new penal code which sought to criminalize Homosexual conducts was failed to pass as of September 24, 2019.
23/2002) of the same sex or gender is not criminalized in the Indonesian Penal Code.
There are three exceptions where homosexuality is marginalized in local ordinances:
1. District Ordinance on Social Order (No. 10/2007) in Banjar, South Kalimantan Province. It
mentions “abnormal” homosexual and heterosexual acts (in addition to “normal” ones) in
its definition of “prostitute.” No explanation is given for “normal” or “abnormal” acts. It also
prohibits the formation of organizations “leading to immoral acts” that are “unacceptable to
the culture of [local] society.” These are later explained by giving examples of lesbian and gay
organizations “and the like.”
2. City Ordinance on the Development of a Value System in Social Life Based on the Teachings of
Islam and Local Social Norms (No. 12/2009) in Tasikmalaya, West Java. It prohibits adultery and
prostitution, both heterosexual and homosexual.
3. City Ordinance on the Prevention, Eradication and Prosecution of Social Ills (No. 9/2010)
in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra. The section with de$nition of terms explicitly mentions
“homosexual and lesbian” relationships and later prohibits such relationships and prohibits
persons from “o#ering themselves for homosexual and lesbian relationships either with or
without payment.”
Alongside these local ordinances, Aceh province (a province with significant legislative autonomy from the rest of Indonesia) from October, 2015, criminalises homosexual sex between muslim men with a punishment of up to 100 lashes.
Same-sex marriage in Kepulauan Riau is not legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Kepulauan Riau is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Kepulauan Riau is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kepulauan Riau is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kepulauan Riau is illegal in some contexts.
Since Oct 8, 2015
Until Oct 8, 2015
LGBT employment discrimination in Kepulauan Riau 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 Kepulauan Riau is no protections.
Since Aug 18, 1945
Same-sex adoption in Kepulauan Riau is single only.
By the National law, adoption must be from a married heterosexual couple. However, single parents can adopt under regional minister’s allowance. There are no requirements regarding sexual orientation or gender identity to adopt a child as single parent.
Serving openly in military in Kepulauan Riau is ambiguous.
Might be allowed in the future if the Indonesian army decide to require conscription.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kepulauan Riau is legal.
Conversion therapy in Kepulauan Riau is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Kepulauan Riau is equal.
Since Oct 15, 2019