Most health professionals likely wouldn’t consider a cup of instant noodles a healthy dinner for a toddler, given its low nutritional value and high sodium content. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a doctor who believes Top Ramen can alter a child’s sexual orientation, as one Indonesian official implied.

“To create Indonesian children that are healthy, smart, and competitive, the most important thing is, from the beginning, to provide them adequate nutrition, especially breast-feeding,” Arief Wismansyah, the mayor of Tangerang, said at a seminar about promoting nutrition for babies, Coconuts Jakarta reports. He noted that many parents were too busy to feed their children anything other than canned milk or packaged foods, leading to poor health and development. “So, it’s no wonder that recently there are more LGBT,” he added.

Major health organizations have long promoted the health benefits of breast-feeding, as poor nutrition can contribute to developmental deficiencies. But there is zero medically accepted evidence that recognizes diet or mental capacity as a factor in sexual orientation.

The mayor’s claim may be a bizarre assertion, but it falls in line with a host of comments by Indonesian officials that link homosexuality to an illness that can be cured or influenced by outside forces. This week, the Indonesian Psychiatrists Association classified homosexuality, bisexuality, and gender dysphoria as mental disorders. The association believes sexual orientation and gender identity can be “fixed” through therapy.

“We really do care about them. What we are worried about is, if left untreated, such sexual tendencies could become a commonly accepted condition in society,” Suzy Yusna Dewi, a member of the Indonesian Psychiatrists Association, told The Jakarta Post.

The World Health Organization delisted homosexuality as a psychiatric condition in 1990. Nearly every major American mental health organization has denounced gay conversion therapy as ineffective and dangerous.

Although homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia—save for one region governed by sharia law—it is largely stigmatized in the majority-Muslim nation. More than 90 percent of Indonesians believe homosexuality should be rejected, according to a 2013 Pew Research survey. The ostracized community has been hit with blow after blow in 2016, starting with the country’s research, technology, and higher education minister’s statement in January that openly gay students should be banned from participating in activities in Indonesian universities. Human Rights Watch called on Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, to condemn such inflammatory speech by government officials, with little success.

In the past month, Indonesia’s vice president asked the United Nations Development Programme not to fund LGBT community programs, the nation’s defense minister likened homosexuality to warfare, and the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission issued warnings against showing effeminate men on television.

As Human Rights Watch warned, vitriol from high-level officials has fueled public abuse. Antigay hashtag #TolakLGBT (“reject LGBT”) began trending on social media, and the nation’s school for transgender girls was closed this week because of protests from the group Islamic Jihad Front.