Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Sharia police caned a pair 140 instances every in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday for having intercourse exterior marriage and ingesting alcohol, seemingly 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 girl, have been struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public park whereas dozens of individuals watched, in keeping with an AFP reporter on the scene.
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The girl fainted after enduring her punishment and was escorted to an ambulance.
In complete, the pair acquired 140 lashes: 100 for intercourse exterior marriage and 40 for consuming alcohol, the pinnacle of Banda Aceh’s Sharia police, Muhammad Rizal, advised AFP.
It’s considered one of many highest numbers of cane lashes imposed since sharia was applied after Aceh was granted particular autonomy in 2001.
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The couple have been amongst six folks flogged for breaking the Islamic code, together with a sharia police officer and his feminine companion, who have been caught in shut proximity in a personal place.
That couple acquired 23 strikes every.
“As promised, we make no exceptions, particularly not for our personal members. This definitely tarnishes our title,” Rizal mentioned.
Caning retains robust assist in Aceh to punish a variety of offenses, together with playing, ingesting alcohol, having homosexual intercourse and having sexual relations exterior marriage. Males can be caned for lacking Friday prayers.
Final 12 months, two males have been publicly flogged 76 instances every after they have been discovered responsible of sexual relations by the sharia courtroom. That they had been caught hugging and kissing in a public toilet.
Whereas there isn’t any nationwide regulation towards gay relations in Indonesia, below the autonomy granted to Banda Aceh in 2001, the federal authorities can’t intervene within the province’s Sharia regulation enforcement.
