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Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…kinds “has intensified under Egypt’s military leaders in recent years.” In Indonesia, where some Muslim leaders are promoting polygamy, the Washington Post’s Vincent Bevins reported from Indonesia, where “radical Islamists” have been “playing a larger role” in politics, and where police recently detained nearly five dozen men in a mass arrest: In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, homosexuality is legal and the state largely st…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…ts Watch reported that more than 530 people “have been publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in October 2015.” From HRW Indonesia Research Andreas Harsono: People caned include hundreds of men and women punished for “victimless crimes” such as gambling, non-marital kissing, and extramarital sex. Under national legislation stemming from a “Special Status” agreement brokered in 1999, Aceh is the…

Ihram: Dressing for the King

By Amina Wadud

…ttle bit of white on white embroidery design on the top of the bodice. The Indonesian ones have little flowers embroidered through out the entire dress. Plus, the Indonesian ones have padding in the shoulders, go figure that out? I’d take a dart over padding, personally. I have enough white scarves anyway, and my regular prayer outfit from Indonesia covers everything with a long enough scarf, I don’t need long sleeves and a sarong skirt with no st…

Ummah: Solitude and Connection

By Amina Wadud

…g alone. My local friends were unanimous that I would just love Ramadan in Indonesia. I didn’t. I love Indonesia. I could easily say it is my favorite place in the world (so far). But what my friends enjoyed about Ramadan in their home country was both the public manifestation of the fast: from the muahdan calling “sahour, sahour” (the bahasa pronunciation) at the wee hours of the morning from a loudspeaker, really enough to wake any one over slee…

What is Community?

By Amina Wadud

…g alone. My local friends were unanimous that I would just love Ramadan in Indonesia. I didn’t. I love Indonesia. I could easily say it is my favorite place in the world (so far). But what my friends enjoyed about Ramadan in their home country was both the public manifestation of the fast: from the calling of “sahour, sahour” (the Bahasa pronunciation) at the wee hours of the morning from a loud speaker—really enough to wake any one oversleeping—…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e regulation if the punishment goes ahead. Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia but the country’s Consitutional Court is considering to recriminalise sex outside of marriage and gay sex. But it’s not just homosexuals who face Indonesia’s growing religious conservative movement; last year an incredible 339 people were whipped in Aceh for crimes ranging from gambling to drinking. Last year a 20-year-old woman was publicly caned for standing too…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic transgender boarding school. According to Shinta, transgender people in Indonesia find it hard to pray at ordinary mosques, where men and women are divided and they often elicit hostile reactions from other congregants. It was for this reason that Shinta helped found the Pondok Pesantren Waria al-Fatah, the world’s only Islamic boarding school for transgender people. “In the public mosque we made people uncomfortable. We needed a safe place for…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in a spate of high-profile police actions against gay clubs and parties in Indonesia this year that have called the country’s reputation for tolerance into question. With the exception of the ultra-conservative Aceh province in northern Sumatra, where Islamic law is enforced and two men were publicly flogged last month for gay sex, homosexuality is legal in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. … Activists say police targeting…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…“hard to accept” for reasons including the vague and undefined notion of “Indonesian conditions.” … The Indonesian government’s unwillingness to address these abusive laws and policies shows a lack of commitment to improving the country’s human rights record. It’s also an ominous signal of the government’s disregard for the rights of the LGBT community and religious minorities. Government-fueled animus has stoked a surge in anti-LGBT incidents ac…

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

By Austin Dacey

…s in the context of broader trends of “increasing religious intolerance in Indonesia which has victimized minority Ahmadiyya Muslims, Shia, Christians, Buddhists.” Indonesia’s Minister of Religious Affairs has recently called Shia Islam a “heresy” and publicly backed provincial bans on the Ahmadiyya, who consider themselves Muslims but differ from mainstream Islam on the finality of the Prophet. Viewed in this context, atheists’ conversations on t…