Sharia Alert from Aceh, which was granted autonomy from modern, moderate Indonesia several years ago largely so that it could implement measures such as this. From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas:
BANDA ACEH: Police in the Indonesian province of Aceh have launched a month-long crackdown on “un-Islamic behaviour” targeting unmarried couples, officials said Friday.Aceh is gradually implementing Islamic Sharia law under a broad autonomy package granted by the central government in 2001 to pacify demands for independence in the staunchly Muslim region.
The province-wide crackdown is particularly aimed at unmarried couples being together without a chaperone or valid reason.
“Since the launch of the operation on Wednesday, we have arrested nine people for breaking Islamic law,” Sharia police spokesman Wirzaini Usman told AFP.
Offenders could face flogging with a rattan cane but so far have generally been let off with a warning.
While Islamic law is usually enforced by special Sharia police, regular police and the military are also involved in raids on beauty salons and other places accused of breaking Islamic law.
“Beauty parlors should announce that they only receive women and staff should wear proper Islamic clothes,” Raja Radan, head of the Banda Aceh Sharia office, told the official Antara news agency during a raid in the provincial capital. Radan asked a beauty parlor owner to rip down room dividers so quarters were not used for any “un-Islamic” activities, implying the business was a front for prostitution.
Nothing like sharia to suck the life out of any place burdened by it. looks like a new version of Iran is taking hold in Aceh.
those islamic idiots should be more worried about when the next earthquake or tsunami is gonna come.
Banda Aceh, 21 Dec. (AKI/Jakarta Post) - Sharia-style local government bylaws in Aceh are bringing unnecessary hardship to the Acehnese and discriminating against women and the poor, while overlooking crimes committed by the powerful, some local people are saying. Yuswardi, a private company employee, criticized the rigid, "formalistic" implementation of sharia law in the province, which he said did nothing to help create a harmonious religious community in Aceh.
"Four bylaws have been produced that put harsh sanctions on minor crimes committed by needy and vulnerable groups, while many kinds of major crimes committed by 'the haves' and public officials have been ignored by the Sharia [Islamic] affairs office," Yuswardi told The Jakarta Post.
all I can say is Muslims seem to have very sick minds to find something wrong with a man or woman walking together. Granted, when I was dating my wife getting into her pants was in my mind. But she made it clear no sex before marriage, and was a virgin on her wedding night, now what is it that makes Muslims think that unmarried men and women are going to jump each other's bones at the drop of a vail?? Do they have such poor self-control. They cannot wait until their wedding night.