Two men have found themselves in more trouble than they can handle after they were found by a vigilante mob, having s*x .
The two men in a shariah court
Two gay men face being caned 80 times after being caught having s*x by a baying vigilante mob, Metro UK reports.
The pair, both in their early 20s, will be caned for breaking Sharia law in the strict Indonesian province of Aceh.
Thugs raided a boarding house in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh in late March and found the pair in flagrante.
Police later arrested the distressed couple, who said they were in a relationship and had had sex three times.
In the first such punishment of a gay couple in the conservative province Prosecutor Gulmaini Wardani said they should receive 80 strokes of the cane for having homosexual sex.
The father of one of the defendants, who requested anonymity, said he did not know his son was gay.
He said: ‘This is an ordeal for our family.
‘After this problem is resolved, we will send him to an Islamic boarding school to be educated so he won’t be deviant any more.’
They were beaten and then taken to Wilayatul Hisbah, a Sharia police facility, after their arrest on March 28.
A sentence recommendation is a usual step in an Indonesian court case and is typically followed soon afterwards by a verdict.
Aceh is the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country which implements Sharia law.
The Indonesian government has yet to respond to a letter from the United Nations, written in April last year, expressing concerns about the abuse of LGBT people in Aceh.
Last October, president Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo said police must defend the country’s LGBT population.