Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has narrowly rejected a petition to outlaw extramarital and gay sex after more than a year of fierce debate. The 5-to-4 decision of the nine-judge panel of the Constitutional Court rejected the arguments of a conservative group, the Family Love Alliance, which was behind the case. Members of the group wept as it became clear the court would not side with them. In September, Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office announced that it had rescinded a job notice that not only barred lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) applicants, but suggested homosexuality was a “mental illness.” This shift in tone was an important reversal for a government that for the past year and a half has taken virtually no action to stand up for Indonesia’s beleaguered LGBT community.