To a bystander, a terrorist attack may seem an indiscriminate act of violence, timed solely to inflict maximum damage on its ...
Two men in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them ...
Indonesia’s secular central government granted Aceh the right to implement Islamic Shariah law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a decades-long separatist war. A religious police and court ...
A man convicted of having same sex relationship is publicly caned by a Sharia Law official in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Riska Munawarah While homosexuality is frowned upon in ...