Seminar… or Sex Party?

A group of teens from a Yogyakarta mosque assaulted gays who were holding a seminar. Was religion being used as a guise for robbery?

November 20, 2000

Brutal mass violence has taken place once again. This time the scene was Yogyakarta, Saturday, November 11. Dozens of youths, who admit they are from a number of religiously-linked organizations, tore up the Hastorenggo Public Hall in Kaliurang. The attackers, the majority of whom were teenagers, also physically abused the guests who were in the middle of holding a seminar.

That night, gays and transvestites had gathered to hold their program.

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