Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having gay sex.

Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, prompting calls by Amnesty International for the government to put an end to the practice.

College students were arrested last November after neighbours broke into their rented room and found them naked and hugging

One man, accused of initiating the relationship, received 82 lashes, while the other was punished with 77 strokes. And, both of them were caned with a rattan stick

Two men were publicly caned in Aceh for same-sex relations under Sharia law, while two others faced caning for gambling offenses.

Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Thursday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia—the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation—it is outlawed in Aceh,

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a public hall in Banda Aceh. It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality since the Islamic law was implemented in 2006.