- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭Unknown
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Bangka Belitung is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Bangka Belitung is unknown.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Bangka Belitung is state-enforced.
Some popular LGBT Websites have also been banned. Nevertheless, LGBT movies are most times free to be broadcasted in Indonesian cinemas.
Right to change legal gender in Bangka Belitung is unknown.
Gender-affirming care in Bangka Belitung is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bangka Belitung is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Bangka Belitung is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Bangka Belitung is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Bangka Belitung is no protections.
The country in general is very hostile with LGBT community.
Same-sex adoption in Bangka Belitung is single only.
(1) Adoption of children by single parents can only be carried out by Indonesian citizens after obtaining permission from the Minister.
The granting of permits as intended in paragraph (1) can be delegated to the head of a social agency in the province.
Under this technicality, a LGBT prospective parent may be able to adopt while single, no known case has been documented of minister approval.
Intersex infant surgery in Bangka Belitung is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Bangka Belitung is illegal.
Under the ST/398/2009 telegram letter of the Indonesian Military, it is illegal for gays and lesbians to have same-sex acts with the same gender. The Indonesian Military aggressively hunts, cracks down, imprison, and dishonorably discharges LGBTQIA+ identifying members of the Indonesian Military. Numerous people inside the Military were imprisoned if vigilantes caught Military members having private, consensual, gay sex.
The former Commander of the National Armed Forces of Indonesia, Andika Perkasa stated there are no laws banning LGBT people to serve in Indonesian Military. However, he realized that the Indonesian military doesn’t allow “indecent sexual acts” to happen in the military.
Blood donations by MSMs in Bangka Belitung is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Bangka Belitung is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Bangka Belitung is unknown.