- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- 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 Sulawesi Utara is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Sulawesi Utara is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Sulawesi Utara 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 Sulawesi Utara is unknown.
Gender-affirming care in Sulawesi Utara is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sulawesi Utara is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Sulawesi Utara is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Sulawesi Utara is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Sulawesi Utara is no protections.
The country in general is very hostile with LGBT community.
Same-sex adoption in Sulawesi Utara 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 Sulawesi Utara is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Sulawesi Utara 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 Sulawesi Utara is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Sulawesi Utara is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Sulawesi Utara is unknown.