Disertasi ini membahas mengenai organisasi LBT (Lesbian, Biseksual,dan Transgender) Ardhanary Institute di Jakarta. Organisasi feminis ini, dimaknai “coming out” di tengah kondisi sosial budaya yang tengah mengalami perubahan global dan pasca reformasi. Pada dasarnya penolakan-penolakan lebih kuat dari pada penerimaan keberadaan mereka, namun berani untuk “coming out”. Disebabkan adanya jaringan sosial yang dilakukan aktor-aktor di dalam organisasi ini melalui relasi dengan aktor serta lembaga lainnya. Sebagai kajian antropologi feminis, lebih menekankan pada jaringan sosial yang bersifat deskriptif, tidak pada tataran analitik.Manfaat kajian ini; Pertama, mengisi ruang penelitian akademik tentang organisasi LBT (Lesbian, Biseksual dan Transgender) telah “coming out” dalam perspektif antropologi. Kedua, menambah kajian selama ini terabaikan, yakni tentang jaringan sosial bersifat deskriptif pada organisasi LBT (Lesbian, Biseksual, dan Transgender) di Indonesia. Kesimpulan kajian ini: 1). Situasi global sangat mempengaruhi eksistensi dari organisasi LBT di Indonesia terutama organisasi AI “coming out” melalui jaringan sosial yang relasi internasional yang dilakukan aktor-aktor dalam organisasi ini, 2). Sebagai organisasi yang telah “coming out”, memberikan effek“struggling”dimana aktor-aktor lesbian inilah sebagai motivator, fasilitator, inspirator dan berimplikasi dalam pergerakan organisasi LBT yang ada di daerah-daerah seluruh Indonesia, 3). Organisasi ini secara aktif membangun jaringan sosial yang lebih luas dan secara eksternal relasi sosial diperoleh melalui dukungan kerjasama dari berbagai organisasi-organisasi perempuan lainnya, baik secara langsung maupun tidak, dan 4). Berkaitan dengan negara, adanya kontestasi dan sikap negara yang “ambivalen” terhadap LGBT/LBT. Satu sisi negara seakan-akan tidak pernah hadir atau absen bahkan negara seakan-akan berada dalam wilayah yang tidak jelas atau dengan istilah “the blurred zone’.Negara yang memiliki tugas untuk melindungi setiap warga negaranya dari kekerasan, diskriminasi dan perlakuan yang sewenang-wenang, tanpa memandang orientasi seksual dari warga negaranya.

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This dissertation discusses the LBT organization (Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) Ardhanary Institute in Jakarta. The feminist organization, has interpreted "coming out" in the middle of the socio-cultural conditions of global change and post-reform. Basically denials are more powerful than the acceptance of their existence, but they dare to "coming out". Due to the social networks that they do through actors within this organization that builds relationships with actors and other institutions .As discipline of anthropology, the study was more emphasis on the social network that is descriptive, not at the level of analytics. So in the data collection techniques no measurements but rather on the process of intensive observation and in-depth interviews and participant observation. The study also rests on an ethnographic approach feminist, which is the action and practice everyday be material from an ethnographic study.

Benefits of this study; First, fill the space of academic research on the organization LBT (Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) that have been "coming out" in the perspective of anthropology. Secondly, adding studies have been neglected, which is about the social network that is descriptive in the organization LBT (Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) in Indonesia. Conclusion of this study: 1). The global situation greatly affect the existence of LBT organization in Indonesia especially AI organizations "coming out" via social networks which international relations are conducted actors in this organization, 2). As an organization that has been "coming out", giving effect "struggling" in which actors lesbian is as a motivator, facilitator, inspiration and organizations implicated in the movement of LBT in areas throughout Indonesia, 3). This organization is actively building a broader social network and social relationships acquired externally through cooperation support of various women's organizations, whether directly or indirectly, and 4). In connection with the state, there is a contestation and the country's stance that "ambivalent" towards LGBT / LBT. One side of the country as if it was never present or absent even a country as if it were in the area that are not clear or with the term "the blurred zone '. Countries that have a duty to protect all citizens from violence, discrimination and arbitrary treatment, regardless of the sexual orientation of citizens.