#Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, partner gets 15
An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times on Thursday (Jan 13) in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes.
Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of the general investigation division at East Aceh prosecutors office, said the court handed down a heftier sentence for the married woman after she confessed to investigators she had sex out of her marriage.
The man was initially sentenced to 30 lashes but his successful appeal at the Sharia Supreme Court in Aceh reduced the sentence to 15.
The woman's flogging was briefly paused because she couldn't bear the pain, according to an AFP reporter in the field.
Unlike the rest of the nation, Aceh follows religious law as part of a 2005 autonomy deal agreed with the central government that ended a decades-long separatist insurgency.
Human rights groups condemn public caning as cruel, and Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has called for it to end. However, it has strong support among Aceh’s population
(Flogging means hitting with a stick )