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View all search resultsThe Reverend Stephen Suleeman died on Nov. 8, 2021, leaving behind a theological legacy that extended welcoming arms to bring LGBTIQ people into the fold while expanding the inclusiveness of the JTS curriculum.
Massive hate campaigns have been waged against LGBTIQ people at schools, universities, mosques and churches, condemning them for being sinful and an abomination. This moral panic has also pervaded state and legal institutions, threatening the civil rights and the lives of members of Indonesia’s LGBTIQ community. This is happening in the Reform Era (1998-present), which was supposed to be an era of democratization.
In the previous months, we have been shocked by intolerant actions against two Indonesian Christians — including a deceased elderly woman. In mid-February, villagers in Mojokerto regency, East Java, opposed the burial of Nunuk Suwartini, 68, in Ngares village because of her religion. The most recent case saw a Christian artist, Slamet Jumiarto, 42, expelled from another predominantly Muslim neighborhood in Bantul in Java’s heartland, Yogyakarta.
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