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Indonesia: Students demand harsher sharia law implementation

(Indonesia) Students demand harsher sharia law implementation
Jakarta Post: “The sharia law will be more strict if jinayat is implemented in Aceh. Article 37 of the draft jinayat, for example, clearly states that a person who commits adultery faces 100 cane lashes, or the death penalty.”
— “‘Unmarried couples committing adultery will be caned, while married people will be sentenced to death,’ said Aceh Legislative council special committee XII head Bachrom M. Rasyid.”
July 17, 2009 – Wall Street Journal: “Indonesia Is a Model Muslim Democracy”