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Local Wisdom Bridging the Urban Divide: the Integration of a Transgender Community in a Kampung of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Darwis Khudori
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Invani Lela Herliana
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Since the last decade of the 20 th century, we have witnessed the rise of transgender issues in public space. The questions of sexual orientation, homosexual marriage, adoption of children by homosexual couples, etc. have become subjects of public debate. Human rights activists reveal and denounce the multidimensional discrimination against LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) communities in diverse countries of the world. The phenomenon appears especially in urban areas and in countries where monotheist religions (especially Christianity and Islam) play an important role. It is well known that the formal teachings of Islam perceive LGBT persons as abnormal or a social disease and that extremist Muslims consider them as an enemy to be eradicated. So, what happens with LGBT communities when they wish to settle in a city of the Muslim world while the legislation does not recognise their existence and the extremist Muslims are very hostile to their presence? How do they take their place in a given urban structure of the Muslim world? What is the reaction of other inhabitants toward them? The paper answers those questions through a case study of the integration of a transgender community in an urban poor neighbourhood in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The case shows that the urban poor neighbourhoods are not a problem as many planners perceive, but a solution. The poor, the less educated, the workers of informal economic sectors, have implemented in a concrete action what the UN-HABITAT appeals for in its discourses: "Bridging the Urban Divide". It also shows the diversity of Islam and its penetration in Indonesia.
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Darwis Khudori, Invani Lela Herliana. Local Wisdom Bridging the Urban Divide: the Integration of a Transgender Community in a Kampung of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Darwis Khudori. TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE ECOLOGY: Global Challenges and Local Responses in Africa and Asia: 55 Years after the 1955 Bandung Asian-African Conference, 3, Universitas Brawijaya Press, Malang, East Java, Indonesia; OISCA (the Organisation for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement) International, Tokyo, Japan; GRIC (Groupe de recherches identités et cultures), Université Le Havre Normandie, France; ALLIANCE (of Oriental Cultural Heritage Sites Protection), Shanghai, China; AFRICA CHALLENGE, Casablanca, Morocco, 15 x 22.5 cm, pp. 167-178, 2012, Bandung Spirit Book Series, 978-602-203-274-8. ⟨hal-02571080⟩
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