An Indonesian woman who confessed to engaging in extramarital s3x was publicly flogged 100 times in the Aceh province.
AFP reported that her male partner, who denied the adultery allegations, was whipped only 15 times.
The couple were caught in 2018 at a palm-oil plantation and brought before Aceh’s Islamic court, according to a local report.
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The man is married and heads the East Aceh fishing agency, according to AFP report, citing the head of the general investigation division at the East Aceh prosecutors’ office.
The judges couldn’t find the accused man guilty of adultery because he denied the charges, the prosecutor said, so he was instead accused of “showing affection to a female partner who is not his wife”.
They sentenced him to be flogged 30 times, and the Sharia Supreme Court reduced his punishment to 15 lashes in an appeal.
An AFP reporter at the scene Thursday, last week, said the Indonesian woman’s flogging was paused because she couldn’t bear the pain.
Aceh is the only province in Indonesia that enforces Islamic law as part of an agreement that gives the region special autonomy from the rest of the nation.
It permits flogging as a punishment for offenses of drinking alcohol, gambling, same-sex sexual relations, and adultery.
Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as “barbaric punishments” for victimless crimes.
And since 2017, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for the Aceh government to cease using the punishment.
Quest Times learned the punishment of 100 lashes is common in Aceh for women found guilty of adultery.
In October, a 19-year-old teen was flogged 100 times for having sex with an 18-year-old who wasn’t her husband. She fainted after the whipping and had to receive immediate treatment from officers, according to the local outlet iNews.id.
