1. YIFoS Indonesia: We are a youth-led and community-led organization. Most of all team members and staff are from our rightsholders. We believe that strengthening the rightsholder’s group is one of the keys to achieving successful advocacy. YIFoS Indonesia has managed multi-year funds, such as: RHRN phase 1, led by PKBI Pusat; RHRH2, led by Rutgers; Strong In Diversity, led by HIVOS; and also CREATE Program led by HIVOS from USAID funds. We also proudly managed a VOICE empowerment grant in 2019.

2. Yayasan Satu Keadilan: Yayasan Satu Keadilan has worked for many advocacies work for several issues, such as faith freedom of religion and belief, advocacy for indigenous peoples, and guarding P4S in Bogor City with the diverse SOGIESC communities. Yayasan Satu Keadilan has become a safe space for the LGBTIQ community to discuss and strategize organically for P4S.

3. KAMI ADA Coalition: KAMI ADA coalition was just formed in 2022 as an LGBTIQ-led organizations’ response to discriminatory local P4S regulations. The existence of collective work in Bogor City for LGBTIQ-led organizations is the first experience that can be the beginning of a more massive LGBTIQ movement in Bogor City, to seize the shrinking civic space!

ALLIANCE: “Advocating for Liberty, Inclusion, and Acceptance for all!” is an advocacy step based on collaborative work between several organizations. ALLIANCE is led by YIFoS Indonesia, working with Yayasan Satu Keadilan, who has experience in policy advocacy in West Java. In addition, ALLIANCE works with the KAMI ADA coalition; a LGBTIQ-led organisation based in the Bogor area. ALLIANCE focuses on advocating the P4S Regional Regulation ratified in Bogor City in December 2021. This regulation provides a legal basis for criminalizing LGBTIQ+ people.

The idea is to encourage the Bogor City government to change the content of the regulations through the Mayor’s initiative to submit a discussion (Nota Dinas) to the Bogor City Regional People’s Representative Assembly. The following is the theory of change from the ALLIANCE project: If civil society organizations, together with experts on human rights, law, and sexuality issues, can lobby the Mayor of Bogor and various civil society voices to urge the government to change the contents of the P4S regulation, the Mayor of Bogor will be encouraged to submit a discussion to the DPR -D at trial. ALLIANCE will then use this process to provide input at public hearings. To achieve the above changes, namely the change in the P4S script, several key activities must be carried out:

1. Drafting an alternative or substitute local regulation.
2. Hearings and lobbying key actors.
3. Public campaigning.
4. Capacity building for the LGBTIQ community.

In preparing for this, ALLIANCE has also prepared a mitigation plan and a referral mechanism for the safety of
the LGBTIQ community in Bogor.