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Indonesia couple publicly caned after alleged TikTok kiss
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Key Points:
- A young couple in Indonesia’s Aceh province was publicly caned 21 times each after being convicted of kissing during a TikTok livestream, violating local Islamic Sharia morality laws.
- The couple, detained since March and having spent four months in prison, had their sentence reduced from 25 to 21 lashes, with authorities confiscating and promising to destroy the video evidence.
- Aceh is the only Indonesian province enforcing its own Islamic Criminal Code, allowing caning for moral offenses such as adultery, gambling, and premarital intimacy, a practice granted under a 2005 peace deal.
- The public caning has sparked debate, with local residents supporting it as a moral warning, while human rights groups like Amnesty International Indonesia condemn it as cruel and degrading.
- Indonesian authorities defend the practice, arguing it does not violate international conventions against cruel punishment despite Indonesia’s ratification of such treaties.
