Equality Agenda Sustainable Development Goals and Muslim Countries’ Acceptance For LGBTQ

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goals are the agendas that formulated by world leaders that aim to reduce and protect the collective global world. One of its points is to seek gender empowerment in the 5th point of the SDGs. Many narratives related to the rights of the LGBTQ community often occur and even experience threats in several Islamic countries that still adhere to Islamic sharia. This article aims to examine how the SDGs can influence Muslim countries’ policies towards the acceptance LGBTQ community in their country. This article uses Robert Dahl's one-dimensional power concept. This research uses a qualitative approach and collects the data taken from many sources to be analysed by Atlas.ti application. The findings from this research are the fact that the 5th point of SDGs agenda still cannot be implemented in Muslim countries’ policy for accepting the LGBT community because it collides with sharia law that has been held for a long time. The pros and cons are indeed a very natural thing, and first the SDGs agenda cannot immediately change the policies that have existed for a long time, especially those related to the ideology of a country that forbids LGBT.