- Homosexuality
- ⚢Varies by Region
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Papua is varies by region.
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
Same-sex marriage in Papua is banned.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Papua is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Papua is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Papua is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Papua is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Papua is ambiguous.
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 Papua is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Papua is single only.
In theory, a single person may adopt, but the prospective parent must be in a marriage recognized by Indonesia which is heterosexual according to national law, making it virtually impossible for same-sex couples to adopt children.
Serving openly in military in Papua is illegal.
We compiled and translated the tweets from the Indonesian Air Force
Blood donations by MSMs in Papua is ambiguous.
Equal age of consent in Papua is equal.