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CHAIRPERSON

Dr Michelle Miller, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 

ABSTRACT

A State and national identity are formed on the basis of mutual unify thoughts and ideas through the process of representation and social imagination. Through these two processes, peoples have rights to determine which ones are good and which ones are not good, thus the issues of homosexuality cannot be avoided. According to sociologist, Gagnon and Simon, this is what we called as a Sexual Scripts where sexuality is produced, shared, and enforced as a social norm and made a blueprint for correct behavior. Indonesians consider the homosexuality as a set of abnormal acts and against the religions. Homosexual peoples do not have any power and almost no access to fight their rights. In the end, in order to survive, they must hide their orientations, or in such of extreme case, they move to other countries. Through face-to-face interview with some gay Indonesia who lived in Paris, I would like to know when they begin to decide to migrate to Paris. Why they choose Paris as their country of destination? How is their relationship with their nuclear family in Indonesia? Do they maintain that relationship? Or in a more extreme case, whether they had had no further contact with their family? I particularly focus to gays (gay masculine and/or gay feminine). This research is purely conducted with qualitative method, thus in this seminar, I will show some narratives that I collected from them.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Wisnu Adihartono is a PhD candidate in Sociology in Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) – Marseille, France. Wisnu interested in the domain of sociology of gender, particularly sociology of gay, sociology of migration, sociology of family, and sociology of everyday lifes. Wisnu has an M.Sc in European Studies from the University of Indonesia, Indonesia.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free. We would greatly appreciate if you RSVP Mr Jonathan Lee via email: jonathan.lee@nus.edu.sg