JAKARTA, Indonesia—Floggings carried out under Islamic law will no longer be held in public or be allowed to be recorded in an Indonesian province where Christians, homosexuals and unmarried couples have increasingly been whipped in front of jeering crowds, provincial authorities said Thursday.
The punishments will be moved inside prisons, authorities said. The aim is to protect children from seeing the whippings and to prevent recordings that go viral on the internet, turning into a never-ending punishment for victims.
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