Police spokesman Argo Yuwono said in a statement those detained had “violated P@.rnography laws”.
He said 10 suspects, including the owner of the club and several staff members, had been charged, while the others were being questioned.
Sunday night’s raid came amid concerns over a backlash against the lesbian, gay, biS3@.x:’ual and transgender (LGBT) community in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
Rights activists condemned the raid as a violation of privacy.
“These detentions set a bad precedent for gender and S3@.x:’ual minorities,” Legal Aid Jakarta, a coalition of lawyers and activists, said in a statement.The group said the men were humiliated by police and many were strip-searched, photographed and marched N@kkd from the venue into police vehicles. Photos were then shared on social media, the group added.The detentions follow a similar raid earlier this month in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, where officials published the results of HIV tests of several men suspected of gay S3@.x:’,media said Trump, in Israel, says he has new reasons to hope for peace Iran accuses U.S. of ‘Iranophobia’, arming ‘dangerous terrorists’HomoS3@.x:’uality is not illegal under Indonesian law, but the LGBT community has come under pressure since government officials expressed reservations last year about activism by its members.Two men were sentenced to public caning last week in the ultra-conservative province of Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra island after being convicted of engaging in gay S3@.x:’. It was the first such ruling since anti-homoS3@.x:’uality laws were introduced in the province in 2014.
Indonesia has strict anti-P@.rnography laws under which offenders can face up to 15 years’ jail. The maximum penalty for downloading P@.rnographic material is four years’ jail or a two billion rupiah ($150,350) fine. (Reuters)
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