"Save me," pleaded child sex offender... Indonesian police carry out '146 public cane lashes' punishment

A child sex offender is suffering while receiving corporal punishment. [Image source = AFP Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Eun-young] A 19-year-old man arrested in Indonesia on charges of child rape and sexual assault was sentenced to 146 lashes.

On the 26th (local time), AFP reported that Aceh, a special administrative region of Indonesia, carried out public flogging on a child rapist.

On that day, Sharia (Islamic law) police repeatedly whipped the back of the child rapist with a cane at a flogging site set up in the village square of Idi Rayeuk area in Aceh.

The Sharia police, wearing masks from head to toe, swung the cane while the rapist grimaced and screamed. Unable to endure the pain, the prisoner pleaded for the whipping to stop during the punishment, and received brief treatment from a waiting doctor, but the whipping continued afterward.

The 19-year-old man, arrested earlier this year on charges of raping and sexually assaulting a child whose exact age is unknown, was sentenced to 146 lashes and stood at the execution site that day.

Ivan Nanjara Alavi of the East Aceh Prosecutor's Office explained that the 146 lashes were "the maximum sentence for crime deterrence."

[Image source = AFP Yonhap News]

Meanwhile, Aceh, a special administrative region of Indonesia, is the first area in Southeast Asia where Islam spread, and in 2003 legalized Sharia, Islamic law. According to Sharia law, drinking alcohol, gambling, homosexuality, adultery, and public displays of affection are strictly prohibited.

Accordingly, in 2018, public flogging was carried out for the first time on homosexuals, and last year, public flogging was sentenced to teenage boys and girls who engaged in public displays of affection.

Human rights organizations have called for the abolition of Sharia law, arguing that flogging is too cruel and that Indonesia is excessively interfering with privacy due to radical Islamization. However, Aceh has maintained its position, rebutting that "Sharia law is a very lenient and humane law."

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