Prabowo Signs Defence Regulation, Classifies Spread of LGBTQ Culture as Non-Military Threat

President Prabowo Subianto has established Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 111 of 2025 concerning the General Policy on State Defence for 2025–2029, which includes the spread of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) culture as an example of a non-military threat to the state. The provision has returned to public attention amidst the polemic over a Pride Month post made by the Suara Mahasiswa (SUMA) Student Activity Unit at the University of Indonesia. The Perpres was enacted on 24 October 2025 and serves as a guideline for implementing general state defence policy during the 2025 to 2029 period. In its appendix, the government classifies threats to state defence into three main categories: military threats, non-military threats, and hybrid threats. The appendix of Perpres Number 111 of 2025 explains that non-military threats are efforts or activities conducted without weapons that can endanger state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the safety of the entire nation. The government states that these threats can emerge from various dimensions, including ideology, politics, economy, social and culture, technology, public safety, and legislation. In the detailed section, the government lists several examples of non-military threats that need to be anticipated. The appendix states that these threats, spanning ideological, political, economic, social and cultural, technological, public safety, and legislative dimensions, include the spread of prohibited ideologies, the erosion of nationalism, the spread of atheism, separatism, terrorism, radicalism, information warfare, economic crises, online gambling, illegal online lending, illegal trade, piracy, theft of natural resources, circulation and abuse of illegal drugs, and the spread of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) culture. The inclusion of the spread of LGBTQ culture in the list of non-military threat examples has become a point of renewed public scrutiny. Besides the spread of LGBTQ culture, the Perpres also includes a number of other threats deemed necessary to anticipate within the framework of state defence. These include the spread of prohibited ideologies, the erosion of nationalism, the spread of atheism, separatism, terrorism, radicalism, information warfare, economic crises, online gambling, illegal online lending, illegal trade, piracy, theft of natural resources, circulation and abuse of illegal drugs, cyber attacks, attacks on vital national objects, natural disasters, leaks of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radioactive installations, the impact of global warming, and disease outbreaks.