(11 Aug 2025)
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Banda Aceh, Indonesia – 11 Aug 2025
1. Prison car arriving
2. Sign written (Indonesian) saying “Banda Aceh District attorney, prison car”
3. Various of defendant walking towards courtroom with hand being handcuffed
4. Wide of courtroom
5. Judges with defendants on foreground
6. Courtroom with defendants sitting on the chair with judges In the background
7. Various of defendants’ feet
8. Judges with defendants on the foreground
9. Courtroom with judges and defendants during the trial
10. Pan right from journalist waiting outside to close door of courtroom
11. Closed door of courtroom
12. Prosecutor being questioned by journalist
13. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Alfian (only one name), prosecutor:
“The defendants were found guilty of committing Jarimah Liwath (homosexual crime) and sentenced to 80 lashes. We requested that they be sentenced to 85 lashes. We consider (80 lashes) to be acceptable, and therefore, we are considering to file an appeal.”
14. Defendants sit on chair with judges In the background
15. Pan right of defendants
16. Presiding judge banging a gavel to close trial
17. Defendants wearing red vest saying “Prisoner” and closeup to hand being handcuffed
18. Defendants leaving courtroom
STORYLINE:
An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after religious police caught them engaged in what judges deemed were sexual acts.
The trial at the Islamic Shariah District Court in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, was held behind closed doors.
Judges have the authority to limit public access to a trial if the case relates to adultery and open it only for the verdict.
The couple, aged 20 and 21, were arrested in April after residents saw them entering the same bathroom at Taman Sari city park in Banda Aceh and reported it to Sharia police, who were patrolling the area.
The police broke into the toilet and caught the men kissing and hugging each other, which the court considered to be a sexual act.
Aceh is considered more devout than other areas of Muslim-majority Indonesia and is the only province allowed to observe a version of Islamic Shariah law.
Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law was implemented in 2015 as a concession made by the government to end a long-running separatist rebellion.
Indonesia’s national criminal code doesn’t regulate homosexuality, and the central government doesn’t have the power to strike down Shariah law in Aceh.
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