University officials in Indonesia this month ordered a student news website shut down its entire operation after it published a fictional same-sex short story.
They could also face up to 12 years in prison under Indonesia’s draconian pornography law, which forbids anything with ‘salacious content or sexual exploitation that violate the moral values of society’.
The 18 student journalists at North Sumatra University (USU) were given just 48 hours to close the site and vacate the news room.
Publisher and author Yael Stefany Sinaga wrote the 1,000-word story about a woman expressing her love for another young woman.
Titled Everyone Refuses My Presence Near Her, it was published on March 12. The journalists also shared it on social media.
Continue reading: https://lgbt.10ztalk.com/2019/03/26
/indonesian-university-shuts-down-student-news-site-over-lesbian-love-story/ (source)
Listening to Lesbians 
Pingback: 2019 in review: Lesbians in the News | Listening to Lesbians