Brutal public punishment of gay couple in Indonesia

A pair of gays is punished with 83 spanking each one for having been caught having sex at home

GAYLES.TV.- The couple subjected to the vexation of a public punishment is made up of two boys of 20 and 23 years who were arrested last March in Aceh, Indonesia, when they were caught at their home by having sex with a group of "justicieros" who raped their home and arrested them in their own bed. The assailants filmed the arrest and uploaded it to the internet where it became a viral video. In the pictures you see the two boys naked and desperately asking for help. The young men were kept in captivity for two months until they were sharia or Islamic law that explicitly forbids homosexuality and punishes it with whipping in public.

This is the first time that the new Islamic laws that were approved by 2015 in the Aceh area are applied and that they prohibit a series of topics that are not illegal in the rest of Indonesia such as homosexuality.

Aceh's population is 5 million people, barely 1% of the total Indonesian population of 9 million people. The reason Aceh enjoys special legislative rights dates back to the agreement signed 263 years ago between the Indonesian executive and the provincial authorities to end separatist clashes that had dragged on for decades. The application of the sharia has led to an increasingly conservative drift in social mores.

The flogging of the two boys was practiced in front of a mosque on a platform specially prepared for the occasion and with all the paraphernalia of a public spectacle in terms of the executioner's attire and the ritual. The punishment was witnessed by a large audience that cheered the executors while recording the punishment with their mobile phones.

international Amnesty has severely condemned the facts by calling them "Degrading, cruel and inhuman treatment" something comparable to torture. And is that the situation is worrisome if we consider that the mayor of the capital Banda Aceh, Illiza Sa'aduddin Djamal, interviewed by the BBC has stated that its goal is to expel homosexuals because, "I want to save our next generation. Imagine what would happen if everyone began to like the same genre and the disease will begin to spread throughout the world. These were his words.

The situation has not only worsened in Aceh province, 141 men were arrested last week in a gay sauna in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital and it is rumored that arrests could have also occurred in Surbaya and on the island of Java.