Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:17:38 +0700
From: Dede Oetomo <doetomo@server.indo.net.id>
Subject: News from Indonesia - #8/1996

Internal Bulletin
Issue #8-1996
Indonesian Lesbian and Gay Network
Published by: GAYa Nusantara

NETWORK NEWS
1. The League for Peaceful Life of Surabaya organized a 
worship service on May 24 and June 7 1996, which took 
place at the Henny Beauty College, Makam Peneleh Street, #82, in 
Surabaya at 7:00 p.m. Indonesian Western Time.

2. Eric P. Aaron since July 1996 has withdrawn himself as a 
corresponding activist of GN in Yogyakarta, due to the demands of 
his thesis work and preparations for moving to Jakarta.

3. Info on meeting places:
      TASIKMALAYA: 
      - In the vicinity of Mesjid Agung, every night, 18.30-21.30 
Indonesian Western Time, young men, gay men, male sex workers.
      - In the kabupaten (regency) town square, every night, after 
23.00 Indonesian Western Time, male-to-female transgenders, 
female sex workers.
      - BMW Studio on Cilembang Street, ticket Rp 6.000,- busy on 
Saturday night, 21.30-02.00 Indonesian Western Time, young 
men, gay men, male and female sex workers, male-to-female 
transgenders.
      - Samudra Dept. Store, Saturday night up to 21.00 Indonesian 
Western Time, male sex workers, gay men.
      - The GOR Sukapura Dadaha Complex, every night, after 
22.00 Indonesian Western Time, male-to-female transgenders.
      - Dinasty Billiard, Saturday night, after 20.00 Indonesian 
Western Time, young men, male sex workers.
      MALANG:
      - My Place, Kartika Prince Hotel, Saturday night, mixed.
      - Lobby Mandala Theatre, Saturday night.

HEALTH NEWS
	No health news for this issue.

PUBLISHING NEWS
1.      GAYa Nusantara #46 has been published and is available.

PUBLIC RELATIONS NEWS
1.      MODE magazine worked with the Universitas Kristen 
Indonesia-Jakarta's Student Working Group on AIDS to organize a 
discussion with the theme 'In More Depth About HIV/AIDS' on 
May 23-25 1996, at which one of the speakers was our own Danny 
I. Yatim.
2.      Dede Oetomo was a speaker in a one-day seminar on Sex, 
University Students, and Prostitution, which was organized by the 
Women's Corps of the Islamic University Student's Movement of 
Indonesia in Malang on June 2, 1996.
3.      Dede Oetomo was a speaker in a seminar on Sex, Television 
Violence, and Ecstasy in Urban Youth Behavior at the campus of 
Universitas Bhayangkara-Surabaya on June 22, 1996.

translated by: Tom Boellstorff

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