In 1966 the Indonesian Communist Organization Gerwani was banned. Gerwani, Gerakan Wanita Indonesia in Indonesian, is in English the Indonesian Women's Organization. Gerwani had been associated with sexual perversions during the 1 October 1965 putsch in which senior figures within the Indonesian army were killed. Gerwani stimulates women to be political actors and militant mothers. In this paper the historical context in which women's same-sex practises in Indonesia should be located is introduced. The author investigates also the association between women's political agency with what is considered sexual perversion and what communism has to do with lesbianism in Indonesia.