JAKARTA: Indonesia said on Thursday there was “no room” for the gay community in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, as activists blasted officials for an unprecedented series of LGBT attacks.

A wave of angry rhetoric directed at homosexuals earlier this year -- including a call to ban them from university campuses -- was the first time senior officials had publicly attacked the Southeast Asian nation’s gay community, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.

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