This happened in a province in Indonesia known as Aceh which is well known as a conservative province.
A woman who is a citizen of Indonesia was given 100 whips by flogging after she was accused of adultery whereas her male partner in crime was only given 15 whips after flatly denying all the accusations.
Judges decisions
The woman was given a heavier punishment as she had admitted to her doings to investigators, saying that she did it outside of her marriage to another guy.
In the man’s case, he was given a lighter punishment as he was head of East Aceh’s fishery at that point of time as well as married but he denied everything, making the judges face ‘difficulties’ in convicting him.
The judges added that because the man denied everything, there was no way where they could find him guilty.
They instead found him guilty of another law which required less flogging, which was ‘showing affection to another woman who is not his spouse’.
Initially, the man was given 30 whips but managed to appeal successfully to bring it down to 15.
Day of flogging
The woman, who was flogged 100 times had to have the flogging halted for a brief moment after she had problems with bearing the pain from the flogging.
Many watched and recorded the flogging process, putting it up on social media which was then criticised heavily by human rights groups.
These groups have condemned public caning, labelling it as cruel.
Even Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, has called for it to be abolished.
However, majority of Aceh’s population has still shown their support for this practice.
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