Indonesia says there is 'no room' for an LGBT movement in the country

[rangerrebew]

Indonesia says there is 'no room' for an LGBT movement in the country

Updated Thu at 6:29am
 
Indonesia says there is "no room" for the LGBT movement in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, as activists blast officials for an unprecedented series of attacks.
Key points:

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) says LGBT rights have deteriorated
    HRW links the change to condemnation from politicians, religious groups
    HRW says violence against LGBT people has intensified

A wave of angry rhetoric directed at homosexuals earlier this year — including a call to ban them from university campuses — was the first time senior officials had publicly attacked the South-East Asian nation's gay community, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report.

Indonesia's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens have long been targeted by vigilante Islamist groups.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-11/indonesia-says-no-room-for-lgbt-movement/7721838

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Having worked on Java for several years, I take their comment of 'no room' quite literally.

The principal island of Indonesia has 141 million people or almost 3,000 persons per square mile for every square mile on the island.

There is no room.