Officials had called for the tech giant to remove 73 LGBT-related applications, including dating services, from its Play Store, and urged people to shun apps that broke with cultural norms in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation. Communications ministry spokesman Noor Iza confirmed Wednesday that gay dating application Blued – which boasts more than 27 million users globally – no longer appeared in the Google Play Store available to Indonesian users. Google declined to say whether it would comply with the government demand to remove dozens of LGBT-related apps. Homosexuality and gay sex are legal in Indonesia – except in conservative Aceh province, which is ruled by Islamic law – but same-sex relationships are widely frowned upon and public displays of affection between gay couples almost unheard of. In Aceh at the weekend, police forcibly cut the hair of a group of transgender women and made them wear male clothing, sparking protests from rights groups. Elsewhere in Indonesia, police have often used a tough anti-pornography law to criminalise members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT community, and the government’s gay apps ban comes against a backdrop of growing hostility towards the embattled minority. Government officials, religious hardliners and influential Islamic groups have lined up to make anti-LGBT statements in public recently. Indonesia’s parliament is reported to be debating an amendment to the criminal code that could make same-sex relationships and sex outside marriage illegal. The community has also been targeted in a number of raids on “gay sex” parties in the country’s two largest cities Jakarta and Surabaya.
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