{"id":10660,"date":"2019-11-01T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/01\/indonesia-man-flogged-adultery-law-helped-draw-aceh"},"modified":"2019-11-01T19:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:37:27","slug":"indonesian-man-flogged-after-breaking-adultery-law-he-helped-draw-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10660","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian man flogged after breaking adultery law he helped draw up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member of religious council is publicly whipped in conservative Aceh region<\/p>\n<p>An Indonesian man working for an organisation that helped draft strict religious laws has been publicly whipped himself after he was caught having an affair with a married woman.<\/p>\n<p>Flogging is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/17\/aceh-flogs-13-young-people-for-breaking-islamic-laws-sharia-intimacy-indonesian-province\">common punishment<\/a> for a range of offences in the deeply conservative Aceh region on Sumatra island, including adultery, drinking alcohol, and having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/27\/the-public-flogging-of-two-gay-men-and-what-it-says-about-indonesias-future\">gay or pre<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/27\/the-public-flogging-of-two-gay-men-and-what-it-says-about-indonesias-future\">marital sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/01\/indonesia-man-flogged-adultery-law-helped-draw-aceh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of religious council is publicly whipped in conservative Aceh regionAn Indonesian man working for an organisation that helped draft strict religious laws has been publicly whipped himself after he was caught having an affair with a married woman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions\/10661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}