In Indonesia the strict Islamic province of Aceh is introducing laws that will serve a hundred lashings to citizens found to be gay or lesbian.

The public lashings have been introduced in parliament and are backed strongly by the local Deputy Mayor, who is calling for harsher laws against the queer community.

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The Deputy Mayor has referred to homosexuality as “a social disease that should be eradicated” and has made complaints that authorities are unable to punish the LGBT community under current law.