A group of men in Kuningan, Indonesia have been arrested for hosting what police have referred to as a ‘gay party’.
Dozens were arrested, and nine suspected organisers have been detained after police raided the apartment on Tuesday, September 1.
The police reported in a press conference they confiscated several condoms but no illegal items such as drugs. The nine men have been charged under Indonesian article 296 of the criminal law code which prosecutes individuals who ‘commit or facilitate an obscene act with another person’; the consequence is up to 14 months imprisonment or a fine.Consensual same-sex relations are not punishable by law in the country, however pornography censoring regulations are often applied to LGBTQ+ people although.