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Jakarta. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has called on the police to launch a criminal investigation into a recent beauty pageant for transgender women held at a Jakarta hotel. Cholil Nafis, head of MUI’s Islamic preaching division, said the organizers and those responsible for Sunday’s event must be held accountable under the law. “In Indonesia, … Read more
The Indonesian police chief who led humiliating raids against transgender beauty workers says he has re-educated them by making them dress in male clothing and “yell like men”. Key points: The transgender beauty workers were made to wear men’s clothes, trained to sound masculine Re-education aimed at protecting transgender people from conservative Islamic organisations, police … Read more
Crowds cheered on Friday night as a group of Indonesian transgender women showed off glittering gowns in a beauty pageant held almost entirely in secret to avoid unwanted attention from hardliners in the Muslim-majority nation. I am happy, but I want to cry as well … I didn’t expect this Miss Transgender Indonesia Twenty-eight-year-old Pie … Read more
