Indonesia is set to ban gay sex

Indonesia has proposed banning gay sex – and the law could pass in the next two weeks.

The bill, which reportedly has support from all 10 of the country’s main political parties, would make gay sex punishable by up to five years in prison.

The Indonesian Supreme Court narrowly blocked a similar measure from passing last month, but it seems that was only a temporary reprieve.

Indonesian man escorted after public caning for having gay sex (Getty)

The bill could pass as soon as Valentine’s Day, according to Kate Walton, an LGBT activist in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, who was speaking to ABC in Australia.

Arsul Sani, the secretary general of the PPP Party, helped to create the new criminal code.

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He said: “It applies to people of the same gender who have sex, which is basically a forbidden act.

“It’s considered the same as adultery, where men and women having sex outside marriage can be considered a crime.”

The news comes just days after Indonesian police arrested 12 transgender women in Aceh and shaved their heads in an effort “to turn them into men”.

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Aceh is the only part of the Muslim-majority country where gay sex is already illegal, as the region has Shariah law, having won this concession from the government as part of a 2005 autonomy deal.

The raid on salons was called “operasi penyakit masyarakat,” which translates as “community sickness operation”.

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