{"id":8758,"date":"2017-11-12T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2017-11-12T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:39:44","slug":"what-is-the-future-of-lgbtiq-rights-in-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/what-is-the-future-of-lgbtiq-rights-in-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the future of LGBTIQ rights in Southeast Asia?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ASEAN SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression) Caucus launches \u201cThe Rainbow in Context,\u201d a report that displays the progress and \u2018extreme\u2019 regression of LGBTIQ rights and welfare in Southeast Asia. Illustration by JL JAVIER<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n
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Portia Ladrido\/\u00a0Manila (Pahichan) November 12 –\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>On May this year, two Indonesian men \u2014 who are residents of Aceh, a province in Indonesia that follows strict Islamic codes \u2014 were\u00a0caned in public 83 times<\/a>\u00a0for engaging in homosexual intercourse. They were caught naked by vigilantes who barged into their homes without consent.<\/h2>\n

\u201cThat reveals a problem of due process. I mean, how could the Sharia court accept the evidence when it was done with such tainted elements?\u201d says Ryan Silverio, the regional coordinator of the ASEAN SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression) Caucus, an organization formed by LGBTIQ activists from eight Southeast Asian countries (Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).<\/p>\n

To shed light on the continuous struggle of LGBTIQ communities across the region, the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus gathered data and information \u2014 outlining both the progress and the extreme regression that have simultaneously been taking place in Southeast Asia \u2014 in the newly launched report \u201cThe Rainbow in Context.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silverio says that they made the report just in time for the ASEAN Summit meetings to further lobby their advocacies, and also because there was no comprehensive information on the state of LGBTIQ rights in Southeast Asia. The report covers data from 2012 until 2017, and tackles the increasing criminalization and stigmatization of LGBTIQs, as well as addressing the pervasive view that LGBTIQ is a \u2018western concept.\u2019<\/p>\n

The report also shows that there is a growing trend of governments to put LGBTIQ rights in a compromised position. Silverio says that there are governments who have criminalized LGBTIQ people by strongly implementing laws against their rights while there are also governments who are somehow open to LGBTIQ rights but only so they can cover up other human rights conversations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe think LGBTIQ rights cannot be taken in isolation. It has to be done together with other civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.\u201d \u2014 Ryan Silverio, ASEAN SOGIE<\/p>\n