<p class="title">An Indonesian man has been arrested for running a Facebook page that catered to the gay community, police said Monday, under a sweeping Internet law criticised by rights groups.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The administrator -- whose name and age were not released -- was arrested on Thursday along with his boyfriend in Bandung city after an Internet user reported to police that the page contained pornographic content, including selling sexual services.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He could face a maximum six years in prison and a one billion rupiah (USD 66,000) fine if found guilty, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The suspect's boyfriend was still being questioned as a witness over the Facebook page, which had been operating since 2015 and had more than 4,000 members, authorities said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It mainly operated as a hangout platform for the gay community in Bandung, a city east of the capital Jakarta, but police said they also found adult content and massage services on offer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Anyone can be punished if they commit something that is against the law," West Java police spokesman Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko told AFP on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Homosexuality and gay sex are legal in Indonesia -- except in conservative Aceh province, which is ruled by Islamic law -- but same-sex relationships are widely frowned upon and public displays of affection between gay couples almost unheard of.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rights activists say police have bolstered a campaign to crack down on the Southeast Asian nation's small LGBT community.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In January, two Indonesian men were arrested for allegedly uploading a video of themselves having sex to social media.</p>
<p class="title">An Indonesian man has been arrested for running a Facebook page that catered to the gay community, police said Monday, under a sweeping Internet law criticised by rights groups.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The administrator -- whose name and age were not released -- was arrested on Thursday along with his boyfriend in Bandung city after an Internet user reported to police that the page contained pornographic content, including selling sexual services.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He could face a maximum six years in prison and a one billion rupiah (USD 66,000) fine if found guilty, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The suspect's boyfriend was still being questioned as a witness over the Facebook page, which had been operating since 2015 and had more than 4,000 members, authorities said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It mainly operated as a hangout platform for the gay community in Bandung, a city east of the capital Jakarta, but police said they also found adult content and massage services on offer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Anyone can be punished if they commit something that is against the law," West Java police spokesman Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko told AFP on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Homosexuality and gay sex are legal in Indonesia -- except in conservative Aceh province, which is ruled by Islamic law -- but same-sex relationships are widely frowned upon and public displays of affection between gay couples almost unheard of.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rights activists say police have bolstered a campaign to crack down on the Southeast Asian nation's small LGBT community.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In January, two Indonesian men were arrested for allegedly uploading a video of themselves having sex to social media.</p>