Transgender Pesantren Al Fatah At Yogyakarta Open Again

Yogyakarta, 12 November 2017 : Al Fatah Pesantren founded in 2008 by Shinta Ratri with other transgender women at Kotagede-Yogyakarta after a hard line organization try to shutdown it, now open again and welcome to every one who want to learn about their activity. The pesantren held Islamic activity as reading quran, praying, and accepted people from education, society, etc that want to learn about it. Ratri said that after the intimidation they a little bit afraid to held the activity again but after a year gone by they bravely held the activity again. Many transgender come to the place to learn about Islam and seek peace by learning Islam in their way. (Photo by Donal Husni/NurPhoto via Getty Images)