By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – LGBT activists, facing a barrage of homophobia and hate speech by Indonesian authorities, are setting up hotlines and safehouses, while “unfriending” people on social media and deleting website directories that could expose them to violence. Indonesia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights groups have been active for decades and have come under attack before, but usually only for one or two days at a time. “This is the first time it’s actually lasted this long,” said Dede Oetomo, a prominent activist who founded one of the country’s oldest LGBT rights groups, GAYa NUSANTARA, in 1987.
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Under attack, Indonesian LGBT groups set up safehouses, live in fear
