New Straits Times

141 HELD OVER

Those found guilty face up to 10 years in jail

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JAKARTA

POLICE have detained 141 men who were allegedly holding a gay party at a sauna, an official said yesterday, the latest sign of a backlash against homosexual­s in the Muslim-majority country.

Officers on Sunday raided a building here called Atlantis that houses a sauna and a gym, and halted the event they said was called “The Wild One”.

Pictures circulatin­g online showed topless men sitting crammed in a room next to gym equipment after the raid.

“Our officers did an undercover

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