Dede Oetomo

Dede Oetomo (* 1953 in Pasuruan , East Java ) is a social scientist, AIDS activist and Indonesia's most prominent gay activist. He is the founder and director of the umbrella organization Gaya Nusantara , which coordinates the lesbian, gay and transgender network in Indonesia and publishes a national monthly magazine under his leadership.

Live and act

He received the Felipa de Souza Award in 1998 and is the recipient of the Utopia Award 2001. He is a member of the international advisory board of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation . He was a fellow of the Ford Foundation and received his doctorate with the help of a corresponding research grant.

In 1982 he and others founded “Lambda Indonesia”, the country's first homosexual organization.

“Our elites have adopted so-called traditional values ​​from European societies in the 19th century,” says the Indonesian social scientist and AIDS activist, commenting on the difficulties of meaningful HIV prevention in the Asia-Pacific region. He adds: “They are better known as Victorian prudish. ”Before the era of colonialism, many of the Asian societies were much more open in dealing with sexuality. This is shown by the Indian Kamasutra as well as Melanesian rituals of masculinity. "In Papua New Guinea, teenagers became adults through anal or oral sex with older men," says Oetomo. The Indonesian social scientist and AIDS activist Dédé Oetomo explains the causes of the increasing drug consumption in his country as follows: "Since the political upheavals in my country, the military and police have started to finance themselves through drug deals."

Web links

• Bio at Fordfoundation ( Memento from November 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• on AIDS in the internet newspaper ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• taz
• Gaya Nusantara
• Article by Oetomo on gay Indonesia
• Gayzette portrait by Oetomo

Individual evidence

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literature

• Oetomo, Dede (1987), "Sam Pek Eng Tai: A Chinese Lovestory in Madurese," in Salmon, Claudine, ed. (1987), Literary Migrations. Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (17-20th Centuries), Beijing: International Culture Publishing Corporation, 593-622.

• Oetomo, Dede (1990), “Post-1965 developments in Indonesian Chinese Literature,” in: Carino, Theresa C., ed. (1990), Social Change and Chinese Southeast Asian Literature, Manila: Chinese Studies Program, De La Salle University , 55-64.

• Oetomo, Dede (1991), "The Chinese of Indonesia and the Development of the Indonesian Language," in Indonesia, Special Issue: The Role of the Indonesian Chinese in Shaping Modern Indonesian Life, 53-66.