The Government Is a Prevention Curriculum for LGBTQ to Religious Lessons

Illustration of a school (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Religion (Wamenag) Romo Muhammad Syafi'i said that educational material to prevent the spread of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) culture would be included in religious and religious education. The Ministry of Religion will also immediately form an LGBTQ prevention education team.

"How is this (prevention of LGBTQ culture) part of the work of the Ministry of Religion which is included in children's lessons," he said in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, July 7.

He explained that this step was important so that the response of the Ministry of Religion to the LGBTQ issue was not only in the form of a statement of position, but became a systematic institutional work.

He assessed that the spread of LGBTQ behavior must be prevented through education, religious guidance, and planned socialization.

Moreover, Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 111 of 2025 explicitly lists the spread of the LGBTQ culture as a non-military threat to national defense.

The Ministry of Religion needs to prepare official education regarding the prevention of the spread of the LGBTQ culture. The material can be included in the curriculum of religious and religious education, both in madrasahs, pesantren, and religious universities.

"Kemenag will also immediately form a team that will be tasked with preparing educational materials, distributing socialization areas, to implementing programs in the field," he said.

In addition, he encouraged a movement in the environment of state religious universities (PTKN). According to him, PTKN needs to be a space for strengthening religious values, nationality, and social morality.

"There needs to be a PTKN movement against the spread of the LGBTQ culture," he said.

In addition to through formal education, prevention of the spread of the LGBTQ culture is also carried out through religious extension approaches.

Religious forums in the community are a strategic space to expand education on preventing the spread of the LGBTQ culture.

"Religious guides, Friday sermons, teachings in mosques and prayer rooms, and taklim assemblies can be used as educational channels. This approach is considered more practical and can reach the community directly," said the deputy minister.