Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.
There is no doubt that the majority of Indonesians still hold conservative views toward LGBTQ people. Many reject them on religious and moral grounds. The state needs to understand this social reality, and not seek to transform the majority opinion into national defense doctrine. Majority disapproval does not automatically make a minority group a threat to the state.