Via ABC:

Indonesia says there is “no room” for the LGBT movement in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, as activists blast officials for an unprecedented series of attacks.

A wave of angry rhetoric directed at homosexuals earlier this year — including a call to ban them from university campuses — was the first time senior officials had publicly attacked the South-East Asian nation’s gay community, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report.

Indonesia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens have long been targeted by vigilante Islamist groups.

But the community experienced an “immediate deterioration” in their rights following a condemnation from ministers and influential Islamic organisations over a two-month period, HRW said.

President Joko Widodo’s spokesman Johan Budi said protecting LGBT rights was not a priority.

Some of the most high-profile figures making anti-gay statements during the backlash were Government ministers.

The higher education minister called for a ban on LGBT organisations on university campuses, while the defence minister likened homosexual rights groups to a “type of modern warfare”.