Read our Privacy noticeA man and a woman in Indonesia’s Aceh province were publicly flogged on Thursday after being convicted of engaging in sex outside marriage and consuming alcohol, offences banned under the region’s Islamic legal code. Under these rules, intimate relations between unmarried couples and alcohol consumption are criminal offences. Banda Aceh’s sharia police chief, Muhammad Rizal, said the sentence comprised 100 lashes for sexual relations outside marriage and an additional 40 for drinking alcohol. Public caning remains widely practised in Aceh and is used to penalise a range of offences, including gambling, alcohol use, same-sex relations and extramarital sex. Last year, two men were caned 76 times each after a sharia court found them guilty of sexual relations.