"I think the state need not interfere in the internal affairs of its citizens. What needs to be banned is if you rally by saying `hey, friends let us be lesbians and gays. This is wrong`," Kalla said.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said here on Thursday there was no need for the government to issue a law to regulate personal affairs of their citizens including their sexual orientation.
He made the statement in response to discourse about the need for a law to be produced to ban campaign about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT).
"I think the state need not interfere in the internal affairs of its citizens. What needs to be banned is if you rally by saying hey, friends let us be lesbians and gays. This is wrong," he said.
He said the government has so far never banned those with abnormal sexual orientation as it is the personal affairs of an individual.
However the government has a right to ban LGBT group who conducts campaign for people to join them.
"We consider it (sexual orientation) as a usual matter because it is a personal affairs. It will be unusual if it turns into movement to influence others to follow it moreover formalizing into same sex marriage relationship," he said.
Irregular sexual behavior is a personal affair of an individual and there is no need for it to be made known to the public and to be turned into a movement to influence others to join it by supporting various kinds of activities supporting LGBT, he said.
"We in Indonesia must remain living based on moral, cultural and religious norms," he said.(*)
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