JAKARTA: An Indonesian court has sentenced 10 men to two years in prison for taking part in a gay sex party at a sauna, court documents show. The North Jakarta Court also ordered the defendants to pay one billion rupiah (RM286,000) in fines. Homosexuality and gay sex are legal everywhere in Indonesia except in conservative Aceh province, but police have used the country's tough anti-pornography laws and drug charges to criminalise LGBT people in the past 18 months. The men, who were tried in two separate closed court hearings, were sentenced the same day the Indonesian Constitutional Court rejected a bid to outlaw extramarital sex. "While the Constitutional Court said social norms should not be addressed using law enforcement, the North Jakarta court sentenced these people using such a problematic law," its director Ricky Gunawan told AFP.

Source: The Star December 18, 2017 09:45 UTC