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Unmarried Couple Whipped In Public For Being Intimate Inside Parked Car In Pro-Sharia Indonesian Province, Photos Surface Online
Although Indonesia is home to the world's largest Muslim population, Aceh is the only one of the nation's 34 provinces that can legally adopt bylaws derived from Sharia. The youngsters "found guilty" were whipped 21 times each using a rattan cane and reportedly remain detained y the district authority in prisons.
Updated Jun 13, 2023 | 01:18 PM IST
The woman kneels in agony after she has been caned as punishment.
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Jakarta: An unmarried couple got whipped in public for breaking Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh district. The duo reportedly received the punishment after they were caught making out in a parked car. Images of the public whipping were leaked online and picked up by international media.
A law enforcement officer grew suspicious and checked a parked car when the couple was found making out inside it, a report said.
The youngsters were whipped 21 times each using a rattan cane and reportedly remain detained by the district authority. The punishment was carried out on Wednesday afternoon on the island of Sumatra. Police personnel on the spot made announcements over the microphone to those watching the act while others take photographs, The Daily Mail said in a report. The two "offenders" were led to the punishment room individually, the report added.
Is Sharia followed across Indonesia?
No. Although Indonesia is home to the world's largest Muslim population, Aceh is the only one of the nation's 34 provinces that can legally adopt bylaws derived from Sharia. The privilege to follow Islamic religious law was given to the province as part of an autonomy deal by the government in 2005 that ended a decades-long separatist insurgency.
Public whipping remains a common punishment for scores of offenders for a range of charges including adultery in Aceh, The Daily Mail added.
The khalwat (“close proximity”) law makes association by unmarried individuals of the opposite sex a criminal offense in some circumstances. It imposes restrictions on women with the mandatory hijab and long skirts, Human Rights Watch said in a report. These “offenses” are not banned elsewhere in Indonesia.
Aceh’s so-called Sharia police have interpreted the broadly worded Sharia-inspired adultery law to prohibit merely sitting and talking in a “quiet” space with a member of the opposite sex to whom one is not married or related – even without any evidence of intimacy., HRW added.
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