Life-Shattering Immoral Charges
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Those who have gone through the humiliation of caning opt to relocate rather than live with the shame. But the law is seen to discriminate against the powerless.
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Hendra, not his real name, had made up his mind, never to set foot in Aceh again. In his hometown of Garut, West Java, where he was born, he looked back five months ago, when he lived in Ajun Village, Aceh Besar, with his wife and elementaryschool-age son. That was before he was caned in April, for having committed khalwat or an immoral act, a violation of Article 5 of Qanun 14/2003, when he was accused of being along with an 18-year old girl, at
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