Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Sharia police caned a pair 140 instances every in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday for having intercourse exterior marriage and consuming alcohol, possible one of many severest such punishments because the deeply conservative area adopted Islamic regulation.
Sexual relations between an single couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the one place in Indonesia to impose a model of sharia.
The couple, a person and a lady, had been struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public park whereas dozens of individuals watched, in response to an AFP reporter on the scene.
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The lady fainted after enduring her punishment and was escorted to an ambulance.
In complete, the pair obtained 140 lashes: 100 for intercourse exterior marriage and 40 for consuming alcohol, the pinnacle of Banda Aceh’s Sharia police, Muhammad Rizal, instructed AFP.
It’s considered one of many highest numbers of cane lashes imposed since sharia was carried out after Aceh was granted particular autonomy in 2001.
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The couple had been amongst six individuals flogged for breaking the Islamic code, together with a sharia police officer and his feminine companion, who had been caught in shut proximity in a non-public place.
That couple obtained 23 strikes every.
“As promised, we make no exceptions, particularly not for our personal members. This actually tarnishes our title,” Rizal stated.
Caning retains robust assist in Aceh to punish a spread of offenses, together with playing, consuming alcohol, having homosexual intercourse and having sexual relations exterior marriage. Males will also be caned for lacking Friday prayers.
Final 12 months, two males had been publicly flogged 76 instances every after they had been discovered responsible of sexual relations by the sharia courtroom. They’d been caught hugging and kissing in a public lavatory.
Whereas there isn’t any nationwide regulation in opposition to gay relations in Indonesia, underneath the autonomy granted to Banda Aceh in 2001, the federal authorities can not intervene within the province’s Sharia regulation enforcement.
