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The police found the men inside kissing and hugging. There have been four previous canings for cases related to homosexuality since the province implemented Islamic law and established a religious police and court system in The change was a concession by the national government to end a long-running separatist uprising.

Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh province allows up to public lashes for morality offenses including gay sex and sex between unmarried people. The men, aged 20 and 21, were whipped across their backs with a rattan cane dozens of times by a group of people wearing robes and hoods.

An audience of about people witnessed the caning on a stage in Bustanussalatin city park in Banda Aceh on Tuesday. Caning is also a punishment in Aceh for gambling, drinking alcohol, women who wear tight clothes and men who do not attend Friday prayers. Prior to meeting in the park, the pair made contact through an online dating app, court records said.

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Aulia Saputra, a Banda Aceh resident who attended the caning, said the punishment may prevent other violations of Shariah law. Aceh allows up to lashes for morality offenses including gay sex and sex between unmarried people. Chrome Safari Continue. The verdict against the two men caned on Tuesday was the fifth handed down against people for homosexuality since the law was implemented in Two other men were publicly caned in February at the same Aceh park after a Gay court convicted them of having sex.

Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having sex with each other. Canning is a corporal punishment and Indonesia has ratified a convention mandating the abolition of inhumane punishments, said Maidina Rahmawati, acting executive director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform in Indonesia.

Intimate relationships between consenting adults should never be criminalized," Amnesty's Regional Research Director Montse Ferrer said in the statement. The men were arrested in April at Taman Sari city park in Banda Aceh after residents told a police patrol they saw the men cane the same park bathroom.

Indonesia's national criminal code does not regulate homosexuality but the central government cannot strike down Shariah law in Aceh. BANDA ACEH — The crowd hurled insults while the men winced their way through 83 lashes from a rattan cane on Tuesday as Indonesia’s only province to implement Sharia law punished two young men.

However, the central government previously pressured Aceh officials to drop an earlier version of a law calling for people to be stoned to death for adultery. The court in Aceh sentenced the men to 80 strikes each after Islamic religious police said they caught them engaged in what the court deemed were the sexual acts of hugging and kissing in a bathroom of a public park, court records said.

It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality. A coalition of human rights groups filed a petition to Indonesia's Supreme Court in seeking a review of Aceh's regional regulations allowing caning, but the request was caned.

CBS News Live. Share or comment on this article: Flogged for being gay: Two men are caned around 80 times each as dozens watch on after they were found guilty of 'sexual relations' by sharia court. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law.

Indonesia's Ministry of Home Affairs issued a letter in to Aceh's governor about caning, noting regional laws in Indonesia should be enforced for minor crimes. Amnesty International issued a gay kiss scene Tuesday calling the caning of the two gay "a disturbing act of state-sanctioned discrimination and cruelty.

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a public hall in Banda Aceh.