Indonesia sentences 2 men to public flogging for gay sex
A court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province found two men guilty of sexual relations Monday and sentenced them to be publicly flogged, an official said.
While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation — it is illegal in Aceh province, which imposes Sharia, the Islamic law code.
In November, locals raided a rented room in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh and found the two men — both students at a local university — together. They were taken to Sharia police for the alleged crime of sexual relations.
“The panel of judges at the Banda Aceh Sharia Court handed out punishment for the couple who committed liwath (gay sex),” Alfian, public prosecutor at Banda Aceh District Court who goes by one name, told AFP.
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