There was a raid on a gay party a couple of days ago in Jakarta, but we've seen that many times before.
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Indonesia has never really been a gay friendly country. It is no more conservative today than it was before.
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The only regression I see today is that politicians are more brazen in their exploitation of religion for political ends.
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But wait, we've actually seen that in post-1965 massacres where religion was successfully deployed against the 'infidel' communists.
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And it wasn't just Islam, but Hindu establishment in Bali and the Catholic Church in Flores also participated in the murderous orgy.
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Sukarno also successfully deployed the same tactic in Aceh post-independence when coopted the religious class to defeat the ulee balang.
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And when he reneged on his promise to the Acehnese ulama to grant them their own Islamic State in a federated Indonesia, they rebelled.
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The blasphemy article used against Ahok this year originated as Sukarno's 'Presidential Act' in 1965 to quash 'heretical sects'.
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And his daughter Megawati is no beacon of progressive politics. Several high profile political murders happened under her watch.
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So I'd have to say that we really have to be careful about our historical myopia.
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The regressive developments in Indonesia lately is very much ingrained in our national DNA, much like how racism and slavery is in USA.
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