{"id":9575,"date":"2017-10-25T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2017-10-25T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:27:20","slug":"indonesia-public-floggings-top-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/10\/25\/indonesia-public-floggings-top-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia Public Floggings Top 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province since a new\u00a0Islamic criminal code<\/a>\u00a0was enacted in October 2015, new figures show. People caned\u00a0include<\/a>\u00a0hundreds of men and women punished for \u201cvictimless crimes\u201d such as gambling, non-marital kissing, and extramarital sex.<\/p>\n

Under national legislation stemming from a \u201cSpecial Status<\/a>\u201d agreement brokered in 1999, Aceh is the only one of Indonesia\u2019s 34 provinces that can legally adopt bylaws derived from Sharia, or Islamic law. These bylaws apply not only to Aceh\u2019s predominantly Muslim population, but to about 90,000 non-Muslims residents, mostly Christians and Buddhists, as well as domestic and foreign visitors to the province. In September 2014, the Aceh provincial parliament approved the Principles of the Islamic Bylaw and the Islamic criminal code, which created new discriminatory offenses that do not exist in the Indonesian national criminal code.<\/p>\n

The bylaws extend Sharia to non-Muslims and criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts as well as all\u00a0zina<\/em>\u00a0(sexual relations outside of marriage). The criminal code permits as punishment up to 100 lashes and up to 100 months in prison for consensual same-sex sexual acts, while\u00a0zina<\/em>\u00a0violations carry a penalty of 100 lashes. The Principles of the Islamic Bylaw violate the right to freedom of religion enshrined in the Indonesian constitution and international law by effectively requiring all Muslims to practice the Sunni tradition of Islam. Aceh\u2019s Sharia bylaws also violate commitments to \u201cuniversal principles of human rights\u201d embodied in the\u00a0Helsinki agreement<\/a>, which officially ended a decades-long pro-independence insurgency in Aceh in August 2015. President Joko \u201cJokowi\u201d Widodo has\u00a0yet<\/a>\u00a0to challenge these regulations.<\/p>\n

The Indonesian government reaped international\u00a0opprobrium<\/a>\u00a0for the May 23 public flogging in Aceh of two gay men convicted of same-sex relations. The Aceh provincial government responded by proposing to\u00a0hide<\/a>\u00a0floggings from public view. Jokowi should uphold Indonesia\u2019s international legal obligations and abolish discriminatory Sharia regulations and their barbaric punishments.<\/p>\n

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More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province since a new\u00a0Islamic criminal code\u00a0was enacted in October 2015, new figures show. People caned\u00a0include\u00a0hundreds of men and women punished for \u201cvictimless crimes\u201d such […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[4357,138,2094,4358],"class_list":{"0":"post-9575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-news","9":"tag-flogging","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-indonesia","12":"tag-islamic-criminal-code","13":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9577,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions\/9577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}