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        "id": 1879828,
        "msgid": "mui-chairman-lgbt-practices-degrade-human-dignity-1784901282",
        "date": "2026-07-24 19:53:55",
        "title": "MUI Chairman: LGBT Practices Degrade Human Dignity",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has strongly condemned LGBT practices, labelling them a degradation of human dignity and a threat to national resilience. The council is pushing for the House of Representatives to immediately formulate a law prohibiting such behaviour, focusing on criminalising public acts and campaigning rather than sexual orientation itself.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) - Chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) KH\nAnwar Iskandar has firmly voiced his rejection of all forms of LGBT\npractices in the country, stating they degrade human dignity and\nthreaten national resilience. \u201cThis degrades human dignity. We are\ngrateful that the government has issued a Presidential Regulation\nensuring that LGBT is part of the threat to national resilience, we must\nappreciate that,\u201d he said during the Indonesian Muslim Congress (KUII)\nin Jakarta on Friday. Anwar expressed high hopes that the House of\nRepresentatives (DPR) will immediately follow up by formulating a law\nthat legally ensures the prohibition of LGBT practices. He stressed that\nthis is a form of deep concern from the ulama to prevent the Indonesian\nnation from incurring God\u2019s wrath, similar to the people of Prophet Lut\nin the past. Echoing this sentiment, MUI Deputy Chairman Muhammad Cholil\nNafis revealed that the council is currently finalising the legal basis\nfor the prohibition. \u201cThe academic manuscript is ready, the draft law is\nready, it will be discussed on the 24th to 26th, after which we will\ndeclare it at the closing ceremony. It will then be submitted to the\nPresident and the House of Representatives,\u201d Cholil explained. Cholil\nelaborated that the main focus of the criminalisation formulation is not\non sexual orientation unilaterally, but rather on deviant behaviour and\ncampaign elements. MUI views sexual orientation as a deviation that must\nbe cured, not punished. However, the actions to be included as criminal\noffences under the LGBT law include acts of sexual abuse, intimate\nrelations with the same sex, and openly campaigning for such a lifestyle\nin public spaces or on social media.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/mui-chairman-lgbt-practices-degrade-human-dignity-1784901282",
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