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Dede Oetomo (born in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia in 1953) is a campaigner for LGBT rights in Indonesia and an expert on gender issues in East Java. He is the founder of GAYa Nusantara (formerly named Lambda Indonesia), the first organization for LGBT rights in Indonesia, and a member of the People's Democratic Party (PRD). As a student and teacher of linguistics, Dede Oetomo is the author of Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction, printed by the Cornell University Press. Dede Oetomo is currently the National Coordinator of GAYa Nusantara. He is an active member of the Asia-Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organisations. == Early life == Raised in Pasuruan, East Java, Dede Otomo attended a Catholic school, but was not raised in a religious family. He learned to speak English in high school using a book entitled, English for the SLTP, which was developed for Indonesian students with funding from the Ford Foundation. In 1978, he completed the TESOL course and was awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation to study linguistics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received a second grant in 1984 to work with the Modern Indonesia Project at Cornell. The project, established in the early 1950s by Professor George McTurnan Kahin and Professor John M.Echols, engages in Indonesian area studies.〔 Dede Oetomo received a scholarship from the Social Science Research Council to assist with his dissertation studies during 1983 and 1984. He then moved into the study of sexuality, gender and the HIV/AIDS issues in Indonesia. Between 1984 and 2003, Oetomo lectured in political science at Airlangga University in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://centerforminoritygenderandhumanrights.org/archives/author/doetomo/ )〕 In 2010, Oetomo and the feminist activist Soe Tjen Marching established the first journal on sexuality in Indonesia, Gandrung. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dede Oetomo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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