Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the only place in Indonesia to impose a version of sharia. The couple, a man and a woman, were struck on their backs with a ...

Indonesia’s new Criminal Code, effective in 2026, criminalizes sex outside marriage and unmarried cohabitation. While enforcement is complaint-based and unlikely to target tourists, the law raises ...

A man and a woman in Indonesia’s Aceh province were publicly flogged on Thursday after being convicted of engaging in sex outside marriage and consuming alcohol, offences banned under the region’s ...

Sharia police caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia's Aceh province on Jan. 29 for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply ...