Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 53262

Indonesia: Homosexuality

Tabled: 19 May 2025
Answered: 2 June 2025

Question

Mr Calvin Bailey

LabourLeyton and Wanstead

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made recent representations to his counterparts in Indonesia on corporal punishment in relation to consensual intimacy between adult men.

Answer

Catherine West
The UK opposes all forms of discrimination and is committed to protecting the rights and freedoms of LGBT people around the world. The UK also opposes the use of judicially imposed corporal punishment. In Indonesia, we actively engage with Civil Society O...

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