Why Indonesia Sees Surge in Hate Crimes Against Trans Women
The recent surge in persecution against the LGBT community, including trans women, is interlinked with the signing of an anti-LGBT Law.
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Indonesia is an islamic country, and islam is very anti women, homosexuals, and trans people. In fact, there's not a single islamic country that's pro any of these groups.
What about Spain? That used to be an islamic country?
That's the thing, they used to be centuries ago. Now it's a secular democracy that's almost majority non religious.
Friendly reminder that Indonesia is absolutely fucking huge, with a population only 2/3 of the US.
If you think truth social and right wing propaganda is bad in America, in Indonesia it's 10x worse trust me. They have it down to a fine art.
Source: academic papers on political commodification in Indonesia. I'm on my phone and can't be bothered to find a link so this one's gonna have to be a trust me bro.
I trust you, bro.