Anyone with common sense in Indonesia would consider the complaints could be pure transphobia/homophobia ? Just asking the obvious question – but it’s more likely it fits the Indonesian governments agenda….
“We decided to close down the transgender Islamic school considering security, order and public comfort issues,” explained Banguntapan chief Jati Bayu Broto.
Officials in Al Fatah, security officers, representatives, the Yogyakarta Islamic Jihad Front (FJI), and locals met with each other Wednesday night. Authorities justified their decision because “the school was located in a cramped residential area.”
“Whenever there are activities, motorcycles are parked on the street and disturb the public,” said Jati breitbart.com reports.
Public attorney Aditia Arief Firmanto, who represented Al Fatah’s leader Sinta Ratri, claims the locals used the meeting to inflict “psychological abuse.”
“There was no clarification in the meeting. Our clients could not defend against the accusations of alcohol, karaoke and other activities at the Islamic School,” he retorted, according to breitbart.com
We call it state funded transphobia and homophobia…. call it what it is!
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