{"id":9347,"date":"2018-01-30T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2018-01-30T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:14:23","slug":"police-shave-heads-of-12-trans-women-in-indonesia-force-them-to-wear-mens-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/police-shave-heads-of-12-trans-women-in-indonesia-force-them-to-wear-mens-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shave heads of 12 trans women in Indonesia, force them to wear men’s clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kathmandu (Pahichan) January 30 – A group trans women arrested in Indonesia fought and cried as police arrested them in the north western province of Aceh.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They were then paraded to a public area where they had their heads shaved and were forced wear men\u2019s clothes. This happened inn front of a large group of people who filmed the incident on their smartphones.<\/p>\n

Aceh is the only province in Indonesia that is allowed to practice Islamic Sharia Law.<\/p>\n

The 12 trans women were arrested at six local salons in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Local police and civilian vigilantes arrested the women as part of a \u2018Operation of Community Disease\u2019.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Ahmad Untung Surianata said the women will be held at the police station to undergo training \u2018until they really become men\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018In addition, the officers also nurtured them by way of having them run for some time and telling them to chant loudly until their male voices came out,\u2019 Untang said according to state news agency\u00a0Antara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

North Aceh Police Head of Operations Kompol Edwin Aldro said the trans women would be returned to their families once they completed their \u2018training\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018There are about six salons that we raided in Lhoksukon and Pantonlabuukon and Pantonlabu,\u2019 Aldro told\u00a0Serambinews.com.<\/p>\n

\u2018Then the officers detained 12 trans women at the police stationg in Utara for us to do coaching.\u00a0They will stay detained and after they finish the coaching they will be returned to their families.<\/p>\n

\u2018Their hair was trimmed an officer, because it\u2019s long.\u00a0While this happened they said their gender identity female, so we tidied (their hair).\u2019<\/p>\n

Prevent increase of LGBTI<\/h2>\n

Police Chief Untang said the raids had the blessings of influential local Islamic scholars.<\/p>\n

\u2018In principle, the scholars support this effort,\u2019 he told\u00a0Kompas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018The expression of men dressed like women needs serious attention.\u2019<\/p>\n

Untang said the raids were carried out to prevent the increase of LGBTI people in Aceh, which he considered to be dangerous to the future generations.<\/p>\n

It is understood police found pornography on the trans women\u2019s phones and plan to charge them under Indonesia\u2019s anti-pornography laws.<\/p>\n

The salons where the women were arrested received police warnings.<\/p>\n

A number of the trans women\u2019s parents told police their children had been \u2018seduced\u2019 by the salons.<\/p>\n

\u2018These mothers came to crying to me,\u2019 Untang said.<\/p>\n

\u2018They said their sons (sic) were given free treatment at the salon, and were seduced by the transgender.<\/p>\n

\u2018This is not good and we must be disciplined.\u00a0I hope we can curb the disease of this society.\u2019<\/p>\n

Aceh\u2019s Sharia Law<\/h2>\n

In December last year\u00a012 trans women were followed and detained by\u00a0\u2018militant Islamist vigilantes\u2019 as described by Human Rights Watch (HRW)<\/a>. Police detained the women detained for 24 hours and released them the next day.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0arrests of two men in the early 20s for homosexuality last year gained international attention after they were sentenced to 82 lashes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While transgenderism and homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia there has been a recent crackdown on the LGBTI community. LGBTI people have been the targets of police raids and surveillance and vigilante action.<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu (Pahichan) January 30 – A group trans women arrested in Indonesia fought and cried as police arrested them in the north western province of Aceh.<\/p>\n

They were then paraded to a public area where they had their heads shaved and were forced wear men\u2019s clothes. This happened inn front of a large group of people who filmed the incident on their smartphones.
\nAceh is the only province in Indonesia that is allowed to practice Islamic Sharia Law.
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