Two men struck 83 times in public after being caught having sex

Two men gay aged 20 and 23 were caned after they were caught having sex in a private room at a province with tough enforcement of Islamic law, Sharia in Indonesia.

The duo were caned 83 times as a crowed watched them on a podium receiving the punishment outside a mosque in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

In Indonesia, Aceh is the only province exercising Islamic law and thus homosexuality is illegal unlike in the other parts.

The homosexuals who were caught in the act in March had been sentences to 85 canes but the punishment was reduced to 83 as they had been detained for two months.

Caning sentences in the past were handed down only on gambling and drinking alcohol but since 2015 the province adopted tough laws against gay practices.

Organizers of the public punishment occasion pleaded with the crowed not to attack the men saying they deserved humanly treatment despite having been in the act

On Monday police raided what was identified as a gay party and arrested 141 men, among them a Briton at Jakarta, and could face charged under anti-pornography laws.