Associated Press reports.The nine will be charged with violating an antipornography law, Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus told the AP Wednesday.
The maximum penalty is a 15-year prison sentence plus a fine.Homosexuality is not criminalized in Muslim-majority Indonesia, except in one province, Aceh.
But there have been many crackdowns on LGBTQ+ people throughout the nation in the past few years.Members of Parliament have drafted a bill that would require LGBTQ+ people to go through treatment at government-approved rehab clinics.