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Over 90 percent of Indonesians are against same-sex marriage: Pew research
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People take part in a protest in front of the police headquarters in Jakarta on Nov. 10, 2023, to demand the cancellation of the concert by British rock band Coldplay, which, the protesters claimed, support lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer (LGBTQ) rights, which goes against Muslim doctrines. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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espite rising support across Asia for the legalization of gay marriage, a new survey from the Pew Research Center has found that a large majority of Indonesians still oppose the idea.
The survey, which was conducted in 12 countries and territories across Asia from June 2022 to September of this year, revealed that 92 percent of Indonesians are against same-sex marriage, with 88 percent of them strongly opposed to it. In Indonesia, the Washington-based nonprofit think tank interviewed about 950 adults in person.
Indonesia recorded the largest opposition to same-sex marriage, followed by neighbor Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
The survey questioned between 900 and 2,600 respondents in each of the 12 countries and territories surveyed: Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, India and Cambodia.
Pew researchers suggested that Indonesia's Muslim-majority demographic played a major part in the respondents' views of gay marriage as a similar trend was also observed in Malaysia, another Muslim-majority country, where 82 percent of respondents said they were opposed.
According to the study, Muslims recorded the lowest support for same-sex marriage of any religious groups in Asia, with only 4 percent of Indonesian Muslims and 8 percent of Malaysian Muslims supporting it.
