Two men publicly publicly about embrace and kissing in Indonesia

Panda Aceh, Indonesia – There were two men in the conservative province of Aceh in Indonesia from among a group of people who publicly worn on Tuesday after they were convicted by an Islamic Sharia court of violating Islamic law through the embrace of kissing, which ruled the court could lead to banned sexual relations.

An audience of about 100 people watched the stage on the stage in the park of Petrositin in Panda Aceh on Tuesday. The men, between the ages of 20 and 21, were sitting on their backs with the reed of the Rutan by dozens by a group of people wearing rich and covers.

ACEH allows up to 100 sessions of ethical crimes including gay and sex between unmarried. Canning is also a penalty in Aceh for gambling, drinking alcohol, women who wear tight clothes and men who do not attend Friday prayers.

The court records said that the court in Aceh sentenced the men to 80 strikes after the Islamic religious police said that they participated in what the court considered the sexual acts of embrace and kissing in a bath from a public park.

Eight people were publicly wearing on Tuesday because of adultery and gambling.

the Men were arrested in April At Taman Sari City Park in Panda Aceh after residents told the police patrol that they saw the men enter the same park bath. The police found the men inside the kissing and the hug. Before meeting in the park, the husband contacted to call through the online dating application, the court records said.

Aceh is the only boycott in Indonesia practicing the law of Sharia. There were four Al -Saba previously for homosexuality cases Since the boycott carried out Islamic law and established a religious system for the police and the court in 2006. Change was a privilege by the national government to end the long -term separatist intifada.

Indonesian National Criminal Law Homosexuality But the central government cannot reduce the law of Sharia in Aceh. However, the central government has previously pressured ACEH officials to drop a previous version of a law calling for stoning people to death due to adultery.

Aceh expanded its Islamic regulations and criminal code in 2015, which expands the law of Sharia to non -Muslims, who represent about 1 % of the province’s population. The ruling against the two men who was wearing on Tuesday was the fifth that was presented against people for homosexuality since the implementation of the law in 2015.

There were two other men public in February in the same Aceh Park after they were convicted by the Sharia court.

A coalition from human rights groups submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Indonesia in 2016 to a request to review the regional regulations of ACEH that allows dance, but the request was rejected. In 2016, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Indonesia issued a letter to ACEH ruler about beating, noting that regional laws in Indonesia must be implemented due to minor crimes.

Midna Rahati, Acting Executive Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Reform in Indonesia, said that canning is a penalty of Berotti, and Indonesia has been approved by an agreement that imposes the abolition of inhuman sanctions.

“These general boxes, until the act of multiplication, contradict various laws and regulations as well as in violation of human rights interests in Indonesia because their exposure is not good to Indonesia,” said Ramawati.

My mercy said that the transformation of political dynamics played a role in implementing politics.

“Because this seemed to be the right thing to do, it had to be done, it had to be listened to to support the government -based government in Aceh.”

Amnesty International issued a statement on Tuesday calling for the beating of the two men, “a worrying actual discrimination and cruelty of the state.”

“This punishment is a horrific reminder of the institutional stigma and the abuse faced by the LGBTQ+ in Aceh. It should never be criminalized by intimate relationships between adults.”

Olaya Sabotra, a resident of Panda Aceh, who attended the strikes, said the punishment may prevent other violations of the law of Sharia.

“I hope that with the implementation of this box of boxes, it can be a lesson for the perpetrator and also to create a deterrent effect, so that such incidents do not occur again in the future,” said Sabottra.