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A fact from Islamic criminal law in Aceh appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 February 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that last year, the Indonesian province of Aceh processed 324 court cases and carried out at least 100 caning sentences under its Islamic criminal code?
Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
@HaEr48: I'm pinging you directly, since I can see that you wrote most of this article. The lead says: Caning is the only Sharia-based punishment that applied in Aceh. Is this sourced somewhere in the body? In The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law Silvia Tellenbach writes: in the Indonesian province Aceh, there are laws providing for the application of some ta‛zir crimes of an Islamic character such as failure to attend Friday prayers on three consecutive Fridays without a defense although Hadd and qisas punishments are explicitly excluded.Ta'zir means that the choice of punishment is discretionary. There is a traditional hadd punishment of whipping, but I haven't heard caning being called a sharia-based punishment before (that is, in specialist sources). I don't know about its history in Indonesia, but for example Caning in Singapore is a tradition of British origin. Eperoton (talk) 21:22, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Eperoton: I don't remember adding that sentence. I dug the article history it was added by Hddty.[1]. I think I'm going to revert it, given that the preceding sentence did say "Punishments include caning, fines, and imprisonment." and the "Caning is the only ..." assertion isn't sourced in the body. Does that work? HaEr48 (talk) 01:02, 27 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
As for why they used caning instead of whipping, to be honest I don't know. I'm just reporting what the sources say. HaEr48 (talk) 01:06, 27 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
@HaEr48: Sounds good. Kudos for writing a GA on this sensationalized topic. Eperoton (talk) 03:24, 27 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
