The Jakarta Post reports
here on a controversy of the prosecution of a gay Indonesian Army junior officer for having consensual sex with other men. Excerpt:
The trial against DS in a martial-court in Denpasar was the latest example of numerous forms of persecution confronting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community across the country, according to activists. Many activists and experts have been denouncing such accusations against people for same-sex relations as a form of discrimination and a violation of human rights.
The indictment was not the correct application of Article 281, which stipulates that the offense must be carried out "publicly" in open spaces, said Institute for Criminal Justice Reform’s (ICJR) researcher Genoveva "Geno" Alicia Karisa Shiela Maya.
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