Via Presidential Regulation 111/2025: Prabowo Designates LGBTQ as Non-Military Threat

President Prabowo Subianto has officially designated the spread of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) culture as a non-military threat within Indonesia's national defense policy. This classification is stipulated in Presidential Regulation No. 111/2025, concerning the National Defense Policy for 2025-2029, which Prabowo signed on October 24, 2025.

The regulation places the dissemination of LGBTQ culture under the category of non-military threats, detailed in the annex's section on "Factors Influencing National Defense Policy." This section analyzes various threats to national defense, categorizing them into military, non-military, and hybrid threats. Non-military threats are defined as armed activities that endanger the nation's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the safety of its people.

According to the regulation, threats to national defense can manifest across multiple dimensions, including ideology, politics, economy, social and cultural aspects, technology, public safety, and legislation. The annex further elaborates on various non-military threats, such as the spread of forbidden ideologies, erosion of nationalism, atheism, separatism, terrorism, radicalism, information warfare, economic crises, online gambling, illegal online loans, illegal trafficking, piracy, natural resource theft, and drug trafficking and abuse.

Presidential Regulation No. 111/2025 also identifies other non-military threats requiring anticipation, including natural disasters, risks from nuclear, biological, chemical, and radioactive installations, cyberattacks, attacks on vital national objects, the impacts of global warming, and disease outbreaks. The regulation serves as a guideline for managing the National Defense System and informs planning, implementation, and oversight.