An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after ...

Monday's verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since strict Islamic ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province sentences 2 men to public caning for having gay sex ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday (February 24, 2025) sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex. The couple, aged 24 and 18, were arrested ...

JAKARTA -- The arrest of dozens of gay men in West and East Java this month highlights a concerning rise in violence against ...

Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law ...

Indonesia's Islamists have long sought to criminalise gay sex. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the vigilante group that threatened the now defunct Q! film festival in Jakarta, has previously ...

Two gay men are to be publicly lashed 85 times each under sharia law after being filmed by vigilantes in Indonesia. An Islamic court in the province of Aceh passed down its first sentence for ...

Indonesia's gay community has come under attack, with the country's Defence Minister labelling the community a "threat" and likening fighting it to "a kind of modern warfare".

JAKARTA Indonesia's legislature looks set to pass a new criminal code that will outlaw gay sex and sex outside marriage. The move comes as political parties -- Islamic and not -- scramble to play ...