Indonesian couple caned 140 occasions for intercourse exterior marriage and consuming alcohol

Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Sharia police caned a pair 140 occasions every in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday for having intercourse exterior marriage and consuming alcohol, possible one of many severest such punishments for the reason that deeply conservative area adopted Islamic legislation.

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, had 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.

The lady fainted after enduring her punishment and was escorted to an ambulance.

In whole, the pair acquired 140 lashes: 100 for intercourse exterior marriage and 40 for consuming alcohol, the top 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.

The couple had been amongst six folks flogged for breaking the Islamic code, together with a sharia police officer and his feminine associate, who had 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 identify,” Rizal stated.

Caning retains robust help in Aceh to punish a spread of offenses, together with playing, consuming alcohol, having homosexual intercourse and having sexual relations exterior marriage. Males can be caned for lacking Friday prayers.

Final yr, two males had been publicly flogged 76 occasions every after they had been discovered responsible of sexual relations by the sharia court docket. They’d been caught hugging and kissing in a public rest room.

Whereas there is no such thing as a nationwide legislation in opposition to gay relations in Indonesia, beneath the autonomy granted to Banda Aceh in 2001, the federal authorities can’t intervene within the province’s Sharia legislation enforcement.