JAKARTA: Two Indonesian soldiers have been given a seven-month jail term for having gay sex, which is banned by the Southeast Asian nation's military as "inappropriate behavior."

The soldiers, who joined the army last year and were based on the archipelago's main island of Java, were also booted from the army, according to a military court ruling dated November 9.

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