MINGLING WITH OPPOSITE SEX FRIEND IS A CRIME IN INDONESIA

Amid the pitiless heat and humidity of the afternoon, a slight young woman screams in agony as she is thrashed repeatedly with a cane. Her face becomes a mask of pain and humiliation until she collapses forward on to the ground, clutching pitiably at her shoulder.Her ‘crime’ was to have been found in the company of a fellow undergraduate who was a man but was not a relation.Miss Elita, who was dwarfed by the sinister police officer who was to carry out the punishment, was first made to kneel. A rattan cane at least 4ft long had been formally handed to the masked officer.

The policeman beat Miss Elita between her shoulder blades, the cane swishing and bending in the air with the force of the blows. After the fifth strike, she fell forward to the floor. In obvious pain and distress, she had to be carried - by four uniformed women in headscarves - from the scaffold and taken by ambulance to hospital.

After her ordeal, the 23-year-old man with whom she was alleged to have breached Sharia law was also beaten, as were four other locals convicted of gambling.

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