Prohibition of LGBT Practices in the Environment of the Indonesian National Army Institution from the Perspective of Legal Certainty

Abstract

The special task of protecting, maintaining and upholding the sovereignty in country from interference to other countries is carried out by the state security unit called the armed forces, which has now been changed to the Indonesian National Army (TNI). TNI sovereignty security unit has powers that include the land dimension under authority of the Indonesian Army (TNI-AD), the air dimension under Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU), and the sea dimension under Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL). This research is a normative legal research. he prohibition on LGBT practices based on the TNI Commander's Telegram Letter Number ST/1648/2019 dated October 22, 2019, interpretively emphasizes the prohibition of same-sex sexual relations, and not the existence of LGBT in the TNI institutional environment. This regulation should be carried out through a law whose formation involves parliament as the people's representative, because the prohibition is related to the limitation of human rights, namely sexual relations.