US EditionCouple Publicly Flogged in Indonesia for Sex Outside Marriage
- On June 4, 2025, two couples were publicly flogged with 100 lashes each for having sex outside marriage in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia.
- The flogging followed their arrest in a hotel raid late last year and reflects Aceh's strict enforcement of Sharia law since gaining special autonomy in 2001.
- The punishment used rattan canes and was witnessed by a crowd; some women cried out in pain, and at least two had to be carried away by officers.
- Aceh Mayor Illiza Sa'aduddin Djamal said the flogging serves as a "moral lesson for the community at large" and a deterrent for offenders and spectators alike.
- Despite criticism from rights groups labeling public caning as draconian, such punishments remain common and widely supported in Aceh for offenses including adultery, gambling, and alcohol consumption.
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In Indonesia, a man and a woman were beaten with a stick in public several times as punishment. This happened in the province of Aceh, where Sharia law applies. The punishment followed a conviction by the Islamic court for sex outside marriage.
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Couple publicly flogged in Indonesia for sex outside marriage
A man and woman were publicly flogged 100 times each in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Wednesday after they were found guilty of sex outside marriage
Unmarried couple flogged 100 times in Indonesia’s Aceh for sex outside marriage under strict Shariah law
BANDA ACEH, June 4 — A man and woman were publicly flogged 100 times each in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Wednesday after they were found guilty of sex outside marriage by a court operating under strict Islamic law. Sexual relations between an unmarried couple is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of shariah, the Islamic legal code. Indonesia banned sex outside of marriage in its latest criminal code in 2022 but that law will…
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