BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities in Indonesia’s conservative Muslim province of Aceh have caned four gamblers inside a mosque’s compound.
Hundreds of onlookers watched after Friday prayers as the four were whipped five times each at Al Makmur Lamprit mosque in Banda Aceh, the province’s capital.
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