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YouTuber Faces 12 Years in Prison for 'Prank' of Giving Boxes of Trash Disguised as Food to Transgender Women
PinkNews.Paleka used transphobic slurs in the video's intro, stating, "If there are any bencong, we'll give them the boxes, but if they're not around, that means this city is safe from waria." Bencong is an Indonesian slur for trans people and waria is an Indonesian slang term combining the words for "man" and "woman."Echoing larger anti-LGBTQ sentiment in the Indonesian government, Paleka said in the video, "[Trans people] do not obey the government, so, don't blaspheme us—we only want to help