- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Riau is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Riau is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Riau is state-enforced.
Some popular LGBT Websites have also been banned. Nevertheless, LGBT movies are most times free to be broadcasted in Indonesian cinemas.
Right to change legal gender in Riau is unknown.
Gender-affirming care in Riau is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Riau is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Riau is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Riau is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Riau is no protections.
The country in general is very hostile with LGBT community.
Same-sex adoption in Riau is single only.
(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 Riau is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Riau is illegal.
Under the ST/398/2009 telegram letter of the Indonesian Military, it is illegal for gays and lesbians to have same-sex acts with the same gender. The Indonesian Military aggressively hunts, cracks down, imprison, and dishonorably discharges LGBTQIA+ identifying members of the Indonesian Military. Numerous people inside the Military were imprisoned if vigilantes caught Military members having private, consensual, gay sex.
The former Commander of the National Armed Forces of Indonesia, Andika Perkasa stated there are no laws banning LGBT people to serve in Indonesian Military. However, he realized that the Indonesian military doesn’t allow “indecent sexual acts” to happen in the military.
Blood donations by MSMs in Riau is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Riau is not banned.