Married Thai couple shaken by harassment, death threats from homophobic Indonesians

A high-profile legal campaigner has said Indonesians would not be welcome in Thailand who left obscene and degrading comments on the page of a newlywed, same-sex Thai couple.

Ronnarong Kaewpetch, an attorney whose Network of Campaigning for Justice takes on matters of public interest, had come to the couple’s defense after they were inundated with insults as well as death threats on social media.

“Indonesian people, don’t think you guys are there, and I can’t do anything. Any day you enter Thailand, I’ll have police waiting with arrest warrants against you,” Ronnarong wrote.

After pictures of couple’s marriage were posted last week by one of the grooms, Suriya Koedsang, the comments started pouring in, leading to an Thai-Indonesian flame war. The majority of the latter attacked their marriage as “forbidden by god” and “cause of the world’s…