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Khanis Suvianita is a PhD candidate in Inter-religious studies in Indonesia Consortium for Inter-Religious Studies (ICRS), Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her intellectual consent on gender and sexual diversity and religion also the impact of religious violence to sexual minority communities. Currently, she is conducting her research on religion and the practice of waria (transwoman) in Eastern Indonesia, in two different regions namely Gorontalo (Sulawesi) and Maumere (Flores). These two regions are dominated by two different religious groups, namely Islam and Catholicism, each of which has different political dynamics, especially after the fall of the Soeharto regime.
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AJWS, 2013
LGBT movements in Indonesia were started by the waria (transgen- der male to female) group in the... more LGBT movements in Indonesia were started by the waria (transgen- der male to female) group in the 1960s in Jakarta and have inspired
gay and lesbian people to create their organizations in the 1980s
and late 1990s. The groups have been struggling and voicing con- cerns for their category of people and to campaign for their rights.
Gay people started with HIV and AIDS issues and lesbian people
have come together in feminist group campaigns for women rights.
They never came together as a larger group until 2010, when the
ILGA Conference in Surabaya was attacked by Islamic fundamentalist groups. LGBTI people are aware that they comprise a cat- egory and are committed to build the LGBTIQ Indonesia Forum as
a space to voicing their rights together. In 2011, LGBTI people start- ed their work for human rights and have documented LGBTI hu- man rights violations seriously.
AJWS, 2013
LGBT movements in Indonesia were started by the waria (transgen- der male to female) group in the... more LGBT movements in Indonesia were started by the waria (transgen- der male to female) group in the 1960s in Jakarta and have inspired
gay and lesbian people to create their organizations in the 1980s
and late 1990s. The groups have been struggling and voicing con- cerns for their category of people and to campaign for their rights.
Gay people started with HIV and AIDS issues and lesbian people
have come together in feminist group campaigns for women rights.
They never came together as a larger group until 2010, when the
ILGA Conference in Surabaya was attacked by Islamic fundamentalist groups. LGBTI people are aware that they comprise a cat- egory and are committed to build the LGBTIQ Indonesia Forum as
a space to voicing their rights together. In 2011, LGBTI people start- ed their work for human rights and have documented LGBTI hu- man rights violations seriously.