Anti-LGBT demonstrators marching in Bogor, outside the capital Jakarta. File photo: AFP
Anti-LGBT demonstrators marching in Bogor, outside the capital Jakarta. File photo: AFP
Indonesia

Exorcisms and ‘corrective’ rape: inside Indonesia’s controversial LGBT ‘conversion’ therapies

  • Faith-based ‘treatments’ for LGBT people – such as a type of Islamic exorcism known as ‘ruqya’ – are commonplace in Indonesia
  • Commercial entities have also cropped up in recent years, offering everything from pray-away-the-gay sessions to ‘sex therapy’ – a euphemism for rape

Anti-LGBT demonstrators marching in Bogor, outside the capital Jakarta. File photo: AFP
Anti-LGBT demonstrators marching in Bogor, outside the capital Jakarta. File photo: AFP
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