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   Sharia police in the Indonesian province of Aceh will publicly   
   flog a young woman for adultery after she was turned in by eight   
   vigilantes who had already gang-raped her as punishment.   
      
   The woman, a 25-year-old widow, and her alleged partner, a   
   married 40-year old man, were caught inside her home last   
   Thursday by a group of eight who were intent on enforcing the   
   sharia prohibition on sex outside marriage, local media reports   
   say.   
      
   The eight, who included a 13-year-old boy, tied up and beat the   
   man and repeatedly raped the woman before dousing both in raw   
   sewage.   
      
   They then marched the couple to the office of the local sharia   
   police.   
      
   Ibrahim Latif, the head of the sharia police, or Wilayatul   
   Hisbah in the town of Langsa, in Aceh’s far south-east, was   
   quoted in The Jakarta Globe saying: “We want the couple caned   
   because they violated the religious bylaw on sexual relations”.   
      
   Under the sharia law, which is peculiar to Aceh, each of the   
   couple faces nine strokes of the cane in a public place.   
      
   The woman’s ordeal at the hands of her accusers would not be   
   taken into account in delivering the sentence, Mr Ibrahim said.   
      
   “They have to be [caned] as a form of justice … they’ve   
   confessed to having sex several times before, even though the   
   man is married and has five children”.   
      
   The Jakarta Globe newspaper reported that Teungku Faisal Ali,   
   the head of the Aceh chapter of the country’s largest Islamic   
   organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama had backed the caning.   
      
   The organisation is usually considered part of Indonesia’s   
   moderate muslim maintream.   
      
   However, Mr Faisal said the alleged rapists themselves should be   
   treated more harshly than the couple, because they had “set back   
   efforts to uphold sharia in Aceh”.   
      
   He said vigilantes should not act directly, but report offences   
   to the sharia police.   
      
   Three of the alleged rapists including the boy are in police   
   custody, and police have appealed for the families of the other   
   five to give them up.   
      
   They are facing investigation and conviction by the ordinary   
   criminal courts.   
      
   Aceh is the only province of Indonesia which enforces sharia   
   law, after the central government in Jakarta granted its   
   religious leaders the right to impose it in 2001 to try to quell   
   separatist sentiment.   
      
   A recent bylaw in the province extended its provisions to all   
   residents and visitors, including non-Muslims.   
      
   The law is enforced patchily, but Langsa is known to be strict.   
   In nearby Lhokseumawe, women are prohibited from wearing tight   
   jeans and riding astride motor scooters — they are required to   
   go side saddle. Women are also expected to cover their hair, and   
   young unmarried couples are not allowed to sit together in   
   public in case sexual feelings emerge.   
      
   The law has often been abused by vigilantes and overzealous   
   officials.   
      
   In one tragic case in 2012, a 16-year old girl was at a concert   
   with friends in Langsa when the sharia police harangued her as a   
   prostitute. When local media picked up the story the next day,   
   repeated the accusation and published her full name, the girl   
   hanged herself.   
      
   In 2010, three sharia policemen raped a 20-year-old university   
   student after they found her riding a motorcycle with her   
   boyfriend.   
      
   http://www.smh.com.au/world/aceh-woman-gangraped-by-vigilantes-   
   for-alleged-adultery-now-to-be-flogged-20140507-zr5x3.html   
      
       
      
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