Indonesia's Aceh takes caning indoors

Updated April 13 2018 - 2:19pm, first published 2:14pm
Indonesia's Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violating Shariah law in public.
Indonesia's Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violating Shariah law in public.

Indonesia's conservative Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violations of Shariah law to be carried out in public, apparently in response to international condemnation last year of the caning of two men for gay sex.

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