Queer Knowledges: Desires, Bodies, and Sexualities in Indonesia
Lecturer: Hendri Yulius Wijaya, writer and activist.
Chair: Jón Ingvar Kjaran, professor at School of Education, University of Iceland.
Discussant: Sue Gollifer, lecturer at the School of Education, University of Iceland.
Hendri Yulius Wijaya is an Indonesian writer. He completed a research master’s degree in Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney and a master’s degree in Public Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He writes about gender, sexuality, and popular culture for a mainstream audience in Indonesia. His most recent publications are “Intimate Assemblages: The Politics of Queer Identities and Sexualities in Indonesia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and a queer poetry collection, “Stonewall Tak Mampir di Atlantis” (EA Books, 2020). As of the writing, he is co-editing an edited volume on Queer South East Asia (forthcoming in 2022), and has been involved in several research projects on Asian gay men’s sexual health, queer digital citizenship, workplace gender equality, and carceral policy on sexuality, among others. Since 2018, Hendri also works on sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainability reporting with Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), public listed companies, and universities in South East Asia.
About the lecture
This lecture traces the historical and discursive shifts of gender and sexual identities in Indonesia, from gay and lesbian, to LGBT, to SOGIE minorities and most recently, queer, while exploring their connections with the country’s socio-political circumstances and the globalisation of queer rights. On the one hand, by closely looking at the production of knowledges about desires, bodies, and sexualities in the country, Hendri unpacks how queer activists turn to, conjure, enunciate, and modify specific gender and sexuality discourses to respond to and counter the anti-queer groups. Through this examination, he also explores how the anti-queer groups generate particular understanding of sexuality, revealing their strategies in adopting and modifying gender and sexuality knowledges. In the end, this lecture demonstrates the broader dynamic of gender and sexuality politics in contemporary Indonesia.
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