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