Indonesian Trans people forced to attend cruel exorcisms to be cured.
Indonesia is seeing an increase of intolerance towards the LGBT+ population, after undergoing a strong conservative shift in recent years. The country has a very peculiar situation that sees homosexuality technically legal in all but one province.
LGBT+ people are considered to be sexual deviants where their homosexuality is thought to be the result of evil spirits’ possession, which can only be “cured” through horrifically cruel religious ceremonies of exorcism.
The Bangkok Post published an interview where various victims of these exorcisms spoke about their experiences:
For example, Andin, a 31-year-old transgender woman told the newspaper: “It’s traumatising – the horror of that memory stays in my head.”
She had to go through years and years of abuses and violences of all k...
