
Punished: An Acehnese woman covers her face as she is whipped in public for having sex outside marriage, an act which is punished under sharia law in the province of Aceh and is set to become a crime under state law in the entire country
If the revision to the criminal code is passed by Parliament, sexual acts involving unmarried persons and gay sex in any form would be punishable by up to five years in prison.
Sex outside marriage is already considered a crime in Indonesia's Aceh province, where strict Shariah law is implemented and those who violate it are whipped in public.















Comment: Vladmir Putin's solution to extreme Islamic ideology in Russia was: What is hopeful is that in a country with a 90% Muslim population, only one province has the adequate support to implement Shariah Law.
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