Indonesian couple get 100 lashes each for sex outside marriage

A couple practices a ritual at a replica of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, after attending training at the Al Mahmudah Manasik Training Center (AMTC), a Hajj training facility featuring replicas of key pilgrimage sites, in South Tangerang on April 5, 2026. [AFP]

A couple was publicly flogged in Indonesia's staunchly Islamic Aceh province on Tuesday for having sex outside of marriage, an AFP reporter witnessed, in the country's only region to apply a version of Sharia law.