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Indonesian police arrest 2 over gay sex video

By AFP
January 24, 2018

JAKARTA: Two Indonesian men have been arrested for allegedly uploading a video of themselves having sex to social media, police said Tuesday, amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world´s biggest Muslim-majority nation. Police in Depok, a city in West Java province, arrested the men Saturday after a member of the public reported the "gay porn" video to authorities, police said. "They have been arrested and detained," Depok police spokesman Putu Kholis Aryana told AFP. "We will apply the law on pornography and the electronic information and transactions (ITE) law." Homosexuality and gay sex are legal everywhere in Indonesia except in conservative Aceh province, which is ruled by Islamic law. But police have often used the country´s tough anti-pornography legislation to criminalise members of the LGBT community.