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		</div><p>Instagram has removed an account that published comic strips depicting the struggles of gay Muslims in Indonesia after a frenzy of moral outrage online in the world’s biggest Muslim nation.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Communications said the account under the username Alpatuni was pornographic, which violated the law on information and electronic transactions.</p>
<p>It was closed after the communications minister wrote a warning letter to Instagram, the ministry said.</p>
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<p>The comics depicted gay characters facing discrimination and abuse, which has become increasingly common in Indonesia since late 2015 when conservative politicians and religious leaders began a campaign of portraying LGBT people as a threat to the nation.</p>
<p>An account of the same name on Facebook, which owns Instagram, was also no longer accessible.</p>
<p>Human Rights Watch’s Indonesia researcher Andreas Harsono said Instagram should defend its own guidelines, which published in Indonesian say the service is a mirror of the diversity of the community, instead of “kowtowing” to the government.</p>
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