{"id":3381,"date":"2026-07-03T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:39:10","slug":"couple-caned-by-indonesian-province-for-violating-sharia-law-by-kissing-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Couple caned by Indonesian province for violating Sharia law by kissing on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>A couple in the conservative Aceh province in northwestern Indonesia were caned Thursday for violating Sharia law by kissing on a TikTok livestream.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3379\">Grand Canyon officials looking for man accused of breaking Hopi headpiece<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The couple, identified as Putra Ramadhan and Linda Hastuti, were caned by authorities in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, about 1,134 miles northwest of the national capital of Jakarta, according to Indonesian news site Infopolisi.<\/p>\n<p>The two were sentenced to 25 lashes each, which was reduced to 21 for each 30 days they spent in custody, according to Infopolisi.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ramadhan\u2019s caning was administered by another man while standing up and went \u201csmoothly from the first count to the last,\u201d while Ms. Hastuti\u2019s sentence was administered by another woman as she sat on a stage, according to Indonesian news site Detikcom as translated from Bahasa Indonesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her caning was interrupted repeatedly and she collapsed after it was finished, according to Detikcom.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ramadhan, 22, and Ms. Hastuti, 25, were arrested in April after being seen kissing on a TikTok livestream, according to The Associated Press. They were charged for the act under Sharia law because they are not married.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3377\">Philadelphia cancels Independence Day parade as heat complicates 250th birthday celebrations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe followed up on this case after receiving a report from a resident. Evidence in the form of video screenshots is the basis for legal proceedings, all the way to the Sharia Court,\u201d said M. Rizal, the head of the Banda Aceh City Public Order Agency, according to Indonesian news site Tadulako as translated from Bahasa Indonesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aceh is the only province in Indonesia where Islamic religious law is practiced, having been allowed to do so by the officially secular central government in 2006 to quell separatist sentiments in the province, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights advocates decried the public punishment and the general practice of caning.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpublic caning of a young man and woman simply for kissing is a horrifying act of discrimination \u2026 Caning is an inherently cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment \u2026 Indonesia\u2019s authorities must end the criminalization of consensual intimacy and repeal all discriminatory bylaws that permit corporal punishment,\u201d Amnesty International Regional Co-Director Montse Ferrer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3375\">Mamdani urges Americans to \u2018turn together\u2019 on 250th birthday<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple in the conservative Aceh province in northwestern Indonesia were caned Thursday for violating Sharia law by kissing on a TikTok livestream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62],"tags":[2091,2090,2093,2092,2094],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-banda-aceh","tag-indonesia","tag-linda-hastuti","tag-putra-ramadhan","tag-sharia-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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