The men were among a group of 10 publicly flogged in Banda Aceh under sharia law, which is not applied elsewhere in Indonesia.

Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia's conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday (Aug 26) after they were ...

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Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law was implemented in 2015 as a concession made by the government to end a long ...

The 2005 Helsinki agreement, which ended almost three decades of armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after ...

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The Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) revealed that this number includes baby and juvenile elephants.

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Dozens of people witnessed the caning at Banda Aceh's Tamansari city park. It's the third time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality ...