Indonesian President Issues Presidential Regulation on Defense; Spread of LGBTQ Culture Added to List of Non-Military Threats to the State

The appendix to Presidential Regulation No. 111 of 2025 explains that non-military threats are efforts or activities—carried out without the use of weapons—that could endanger the nation’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the safety of the entire nation.

The government states that such threats can arise from various dimensions, ranging from ideology, politics, economics, social and cultural factors, technology, public safety, to legislation.

In the detailed section, the government lists a number of examples of non-military threats that need to be anticipated.

“These threats—which span ideological, political, economic, social and cultural, technological, public safety, and legislative dimensions—include, among others, the spread of banned ideologies, the erosion of nationalist values, the spread of atheism, separatism, terrorism, radicalism, information warfare, economic crises, online gambling, illegal online lending, illegal trade, piracy, theft of natural resources, the distribution and abuse of illegal drugs, and the spread of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) culture,” reads the annex to the Presidential Regulation.

The inclusion of the spread of LGBTQ culture in the list of examples of non-military threats has once again become a point of public scrutiny.