Men could face 15 years in prison for organizing 'gay party in Indonesia

The other six men have had charges filed against them under the country’s strict anti-pornography law, according to AFP.

Shinto Silitonga, the local police’s head of detectives, told the agency that officers found 14 men in two rooms watching gay porn and performing ‘deviant sexual acts’.

‘This is the first time we enforce the law and arrest gay people in the city,’ he added.

In a post on his Facebook page, the detective called the event a ‘gay party’ and said police had confiscated motorcycles and cars from the men arrested.

‘May the law enforcement approach be one instrument to minimise similar actions,’ he wrote.

Being gay is not illegal in Indonesia except in Aceh. where two men were arrested in March and faced 100 lashes for having sex.

A judicial review is also being considered by the Constitutional Court to criminalise sex outside marriage and sex between people of the same gender.

Anti-LGBT discrimination could cost the country £9 billion a year, according to a study from the Williams Institute, due to barriers LGBT citizens face when trying to access employment, healthcare and education.