Aug 02, 2021 Last Updated 4:08 AM, Jul 29, 2021

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Incarnation as a trans woman

Community based organisation (CBO) meeting in Surabaya. Blok M is the abbreviation of Blok Margomulyo, an area in Surabaya / Irmia

People don’t just become waria; they need to be taught and brought into being by a more senior waria

Allies in Java

Aan Anshori starts his presentation on Islam and sexuality / Diego Garcia Rodriguez

LGBT activists are working with religious allies and others to promote faith-based tolerance

Mobilisasi rasa takut

Antara Foto / Andreas Fitri Atmoko

Ujaran kebencian yang terus-menerus terhadap minoritas gender dan seksual telah memberikan dampak yang merugikan

Meng-queer-kan Kesalehan

Navigating inner conflict

Kesalehan moral tidak dipahami secara tunggal di kalangan Muslim queer

Nitis, pengalaman hidup waria

Pertemuan Community based organisation (CBO) Blok M. . Blok M adalah singkatan dari Blok Margomulyo, sebuah area di Surabaya / Irmia

Seseorang tidak serta-merta menjadi transpuan (waria); perlu seseorang untuk mendampingi, untuk menuturi

Queer pop culture

Indonesian female cosplayer performing as a male character / Indra Adryan @indraadryan; APHIN @phinaphin. permission to use the photo granted

Korean idols and Japanese boys’ love comics are finding new places for queer expression in Indonesia

Sexual surveillance overseas

/ Angela Rutherford @Flickr Creative Commons

Distance can bring more sexual freedom for Indonesian women, but fear of judgment is still isolating

Mobilising fear

Antara Foto / Andreas Fitri Atmoko

Unchecked hate speech against Indonesia’s LGBT community is having a devastating effect

Breaking free in gay Paris

/ Tristan Billet @Unsplash Creative Commons

Some gay Indonesians move overseas to lead a more simple and openly gay life

Pelakor and Instagram

Lost in A Love Affair / Amanda Niekamp Creative Commons

Language around extramarital affairs on social media punishes women and lets men off the hook

Reformasi’s broken promises

Muslim protesters hold an anti-LGBT rally outside a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia on February 2, 2018. © 2018 Antara Foto / Irwansyah Putra

Sexual minorities increasingly feel left out of Indonesia’s democratisation processes

AIDS as an ‘entry point’ for LGBT rights discourse

Concern for pregnant women has increased HIV/AIDS awareness, but to the detriment of some other groups and causes

Bandung, city of human rights?

'Protests against Syiah’ / Rini Rahmawati

Despite stated goodwill by authorities, intolerance towards minority groups is growing in Bandung

Contraception at a crossroads

Adam Cohn @Flickr

Indonesia’s 50-year-old family planning program has been a great success but is struggling to adapt with women’s needs

Hunger and culture in West Papua

Indigenous Marind in rural Merauke have traditionally depended on the forest for their subsistence / Sophie Chao

Oil palm projects are causing hunger in Merauke, both literal and symbolic

Drugs and drug policy

Anti-drugs support. Healthy millennials without drugs 2019 / ANTARA FOTO/Asep Fathulrahman

Drug use in Indonesia has a long history

Crystal meth users in Indonesia

Officials inspect a shipment of sabu intercepted at Lampung airport on its way to Makassar/ ANTARA FOTO Hendra Nurdiyansyah

Not all users of sabu-sabu are dependant on it, but their experiences are ignored by the law

Drugs and the death penalty

Reporters scramble to get a picture at the Wirogunan Penitentiary [TEMPO/Pius Erlangga]

Indonesia’s ill-informed war on drugs endangers and ends lives rather than saving them

Criminal patients

A National Narcotics Board poster displaying messaging from The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2014 in Indonesia / Lex Kuiper

People who use drugs occupy an ambiguous position in Indonesian government rhetoric

Photo essay: Woman to woman

Source / Alex Radu

A unique drug rehabilitation centre in Bogor helps women regain their independence

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