JAKARTA: Two Indonesian men have been arrested for allegedly uploading a video of themselves having sex to social media, police said yesterday, amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. Police in Depok, a city in West Java province, arrested the men Saturday after a member of the public reported the "gay porn" video to authorities, police said. "They have been arrested and detained," Depok police spokesman Putu Kholis Aryana said. "We will apply the law on pornography and the electronic information and transactions (ITE) law."
Homosexuality and gay sex are legal everywhere in Indonesia except in conservative Aceh province, which is ruled by Islamic law. But police have often used the country's tough anti-pornography legislation to criminalize members of the LGBT community. The electronic information law is also frequently used by public officials to bring criminal charges against people accused of making internet-based insults and defamation.