Woman flogged 100 times for adultery, partner gets 15 in Indonesia

Agence France-Presse

January 14, 2022 | 9: 56am

IDI, Indonesia — An Indonesian lady was once flogged 100 times Thursday in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male associate, who denied the accusations, got appropriate 15 lashes.

Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of customary investigation division at East Aceh prosecutors place of industrial, mentioned the courtroom handed down a heftier sentence for the married lady after she confessed to investigators she had intercourse out of her marriage.

Judges stumbled on it complicated to convict the man, who was once then the head of East Aceh fishery company and likewise married, because he denied all wrongdoings, Alavi added.

“In some unspecified time in the future of the trial, he admitted nothing, denying all accusations. Thus, [judges] will not be capable to utter whether he’s guilty,” Alavi told journalists after a public flogging for Sharia law offenders in East Aceh on Thursday.

Aceh is the finest feature in Muslim-majority Indonesia to impose Islamic law, which lets in whipping for costs alongside side gambling, adultery, drinking alcohol, and homosexual intercourse.

Instead punishment, as a replace the judges stumbled on the married man guilty of “displaying affection to a female associate who’s not his companion” after the couple were caught by locals at a palm oil plantation in 2018.

He was once on the muse sentenced to 30 lashes but his a hit enchantment at the Sharia Supreme Court in Aceh diminished the sentence to 15.

The girl’s flogging was once posthaste paused because she couldn’t salvage the concern, primarily primarily based on an AFP reporter within the field.

One other man convicted of getting intercourse with a minor was once also whipped 100 times on Thursday.

The individual will also serve 75 months in prison for the crime after the flogging primarily primarily based on prosecutors.

Dozens watched, recorded and place Thursday’s flogging on social media, a spectacle criticised by rights groups but which gradually attracted hundreds before the pandemic.

Now not just like the rest of the nation, Aceh follows non secular law as fragment of a 2005 autonomy deal agreed with the central authorities that ended a a protracted time-long separatist insurgency.

Human rights groups slam public caning as merciless, and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has called for it to live. However, it has stable beef up among Aceh’s inhabitants.