{"id":12904,"date":"2020-01-14T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/14\/indonesia-lgbt-community-faces-backlash-after-reynhard-sinagas-conviction"},"modified":"2020-01-14T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:54:17","slug":"indonesia-lgbt-community-faces-backlash-after-reynhard-sinagas-rape-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12904","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: LGBT community faces backlash after Reynhard Sinaga&#8217;s rape conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups voice concern as mayor in Sinaga\u2019s home city instructs police to carry out raids to uncover \u2018LGBT behaviour\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The mayor in the home city of an Indonesian man described as Britain\u2019s \u201cmost prolific rapist\u201d has ordered raids to uncover members of the LGBT community, prompting fears of a growing homophobic backlash across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Depok, a city south of Jakarta, asked residents to report any signs of LGBT activity which he characterised as \u201cdeviant behaviour\u201d. Mohammad Idris also called on several agencies to improve efforts to prevent the \u201cspread of LGBT\u201d in order to \u201cstrengthen families and \u2026 protect the children\u201d and instructed police to carry out raids to uncover \u201cLGBT behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/14\/indonesia-lgbt-community-faces-backlash-after-reynhard-sinagas-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups voice concern as mayor in Sinaga\u2019s home city instructs police to carry out raids to uncover \u2018LGBT behaviour\u2019The mayor in the home city of an Indonesian man described as Britain\u2019s \u201cmost prolific rapist\u201d has ordered raids to uncover members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12905,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions\/12905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}