An Indonesian man working for an organisation which helped draft strict religious laws ordering adulterers to be flogged was himself publicly whipped on Thursday after he was caught having an affair with a married woman.Flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences in the deeply conservative Aceh region on Sumatra island, including adultery, drinking alcohol, and having gay or premarital sex.Aceh is the only region in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation that imposes Islamic law…
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