Queer Citizenship dalam Bayang Kolonial: Gerakan Intelektual Subaltern dan Tafsir Baru Pluralisme Indonesia

Abstract

In the socio-political context of Indonesia which positions itself as a democratic nation, the formation of an inclusive public sphere has yet to be fully realized. LGBTQ+ communities continue to face systemic discrimination and social exclusion. This study departs from the need to understand how the concept of queer citizenship can be used to reinterpret Indonesia’s pluralistic model of citizenship. The research aims to analyze the forms of subaltern LGBTIQ+ intellectual movements that play a role in redefining citizenship. The study employs a descriptive qualitative method, in which data were collected through in-depth interviews and participant observation. The findings of this research reveal, first, that the concept of citizenship in the Indonesian context has never emerged within a neutral social space. Second, LGBTIQ+ intellectual movements in Indonesia can be understood not merely as expressions of identity-based political resistance, but also as epistemic spaces that renegotiate the relationship between knowledge, power, and other social forces. Pluralism, as a decolonial project, demonstrates that the new form of pluralism offered by subaltern intellectual or queer movements rejects the moralistic approaches inherited from colonialism and reproduced by the modern state. Thus, this study shows that subaltern LGBTIQ+ intellectual movements in Indonesia function as new epistemic loci that challenge moral and colonial hegemony within citizenship discourse.

Keywords: queer citizenship, pluralism, citizenship, hegemony, morality