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Group threatens to close down LGBT seminar

YOGYAKARTA: A radical group has threatened to use force to close down a seminar on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues organized by Sanata Dharma University’s School of Psychology

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Thu, September 18, 2014 Published on Sep. 18, 2014 Published on 2014-09-18T09:15:53+07:00

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Group threatens to close down LGBT seminar

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OGYAKARTA: A radical group has threatened to use force to close down a seminar on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues organized by Sanata Dharma University'€™s School of Psychology.

'€œWe have requested the seminar be cancelled. If not, we will cancel it by force,'€ Muhammad Fuad, leader of the Ka'€™abah Defender Movement, one of the elements grouped under the Islamic Society Forum (FUI), said on Wednesday.

Sanata Dharma rector Johanes Eka Priyatma said he had been made aware of the threat, saying that the university would reconsider and cancel the seminar if it turned out that the seminar'€™s theme would hurt the feelings of some groups in town.

'€œWe always have the option to cancel the seminar if we find out that it could hurt the feelings of some groups,'€ Johanes said on Wednesday.

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