Indonesian Sharia policemen look on during a public caning punishment of 36 men at a Mosque in Meulaboh on the west coast of Aceh province on February 12, 2016. Aceh is the only province in the world
BANDA ACEH: Two Indonesian men will Tuesday be publicly caned for having sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where there are concerns over mounting hostility towards the small gay community.
The pair, aged 20 and 23, were last week found guilty of having broken sharia rules in conservative Aceh province — the only part of Indonesia that implements Islamic law — and sentenced to 85 strokes of the cane each.
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