Public Flogging in Aceh: Strict Sharia Law Enforcement

0:00On April 7th, in Banda Ache, Indonesia's Ache Province, a couple faced public vlogging on Tuesday for sex outside marriage, 100 lashes each. With a retanned cane in a park, as dozens looked on, it's the only spot in the country enforcing a version of Sharia law, and the beating hit so hard the woman collapsed and passed out. Six people got cane that day total, including this pair. The others took between 8 and 29 strokes for lighter offenses, like close physical contact with the opposite sex or sipping alcohol. Local prosecutors stand by it, saying they enforce Islamic rules strictly whenever someone's cop breaking them. Caining draws strong backing in Ache for crimes from gambling to gay sex and extramarital relations. Earlier this year in January, another unmarried couple endured 140 lashes apiece, 100 for the sex violation, 40 more for booze. Even a Sharia police officer in his partner caught heat, each getting 23 strikes, proving

1:01no one's above the law there. Ache keeps these public punishments rolling to uphold their code, standing out in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, where the rest of the country plays by different the world's largest Muslim nation, where the rest of the country plays by different