Syariah police officers caned a couple 140 times each in Aceh province for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative region adopted Islamic law.
Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the only place in Indonesia to impose a version of syariah. The couple, a man and a woman, were struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public park while dozens of people watched.
