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Inside Indonesia's horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to 'cure' LGBT people and 'pray away the gay'


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Inside Indonesia’s horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to ‘cure’ LGBT people and ‘pray away the gay’
May 11 2021, 6:43 ET
EXORCISMS have largely been confined to the history books – but they re a grim modern-day reality in Indonesia.
Many made to have the treatment don t even have anything wrong with them, but are told they re possessed by demonic spirits because they re LGBT.
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A cleric performing an exorcism on members of the LGBT community in Jakarta, IndonesiaCredit: AFP
Islamic exorcisms, or ruqyah , have come under renewed scrutiny in the Southeast Asian nation after some practitioners have even offered corrective rape as part of a service to cure LGBT people. ....

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Exorcisms and 'corrective' rape: Inside Indonesia's controversial LGBT 'conversion' therapies


April 26, 2021
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Growing up as someone who does not conform to traditional gender norms is not easy in Indonesia . Just ask Christine , a 35 year-old transgender woman in West Java who has been made to undergo conversion therapy no fewer than four times.
While the pseudoscientific practice has been condemned in much of the West, conversion therapy is still widely carried out by faith-based organisations in the world’s largest Muslim majority nation, as well as some commercial entities. Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia but rising religious conservatism has fuelled increasing discrimination against the community.
Christine, who grew up in the city of Medan in North Sumatra province, said that she was first subjected to the practice – a type of Islamic exorcism known in Indonesia as ruqya – when she was thirteen. ....

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Conversion therapy website targets LGBT+ Indonesians


LGBT+ people in Indonesia have no legal protection against discrimination. (Solo Imaji / Barcroft Media via Getty Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
LGBT+ activists in Indonesia have reportedly been harassed by an Instagram account offering conversion therapy for “individuals who are confused about their sexual identity”.
The account, which which was set to private and since appears to have been deleted, was sending DMs to activists containing a link to a conversion therapy website.
The message read: “It’s not too late to return to God. God has not left you.
“Indonesia is a Muslim country, and we reject all sings. Let us help you drive Satan out from inside of you and you can become normal again.” ....

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