When the reports surfaced about Britain's "most prolific rapist" Reynhard Sinaga — an Indonesian national sentenced to life for 150 crimes, including 136 rapes against men — Riko was upset. Riko, who refused to give his family name because he hasn't come out to his parents, is a fashion stylist based in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He identifies as gay, and feared Sinaga's case would see vitriol directed at him and his community.

The case has been wielded as a weapon by Indonesian conservative groups online, who claim Sinaga's crimes are "evidence" that LGBT people are "evil", "mentally ill", or that they "need to be cured". An LGBT advocacy group in Jakarta, Arus Pelangi, said the Sinaga case would potentially "thicken the stigmatisation" of the community in Indonesia. Read more via ABC