- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Sumatera Utara is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Sumatera Utara is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
Right to change legal gender in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
Gender-affirming care in Sumatera Utara is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Sumatera Utara is no protections.
The country in general is very hostile with LGBT community.
Same-sex adoption in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Sumatera 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 Sumatera Utara is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Sumatera Utara is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Sumatera Utara is unknown.