I agree with stoning law, killing all fuckershit! --- On Wed, 9/16/09, sunny <[email protected]> wrote:
From: sunny <[email protected]> Subject: CiKEAS> Rights group condemns Aceh's new stoning law To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 8:57 PM http://www.gulf- times.com/ site/topics/ article.asp? cu_no=2&item_no=314886&version=1&template_id= 45&parent_id=25 Rights group condemns Aceh’s new stoning law Indonesia’s rights group resents the new law which replaces elements of criminal code with Shariah for Muslims Publish Date: Tuesday,15 September, 2009, at 10:34 PM Doha Time AFP/Banda Aceh Indonesian rights activists yesterday condemned as “cruel and degrading” a new Islamic law calling for adulterers to be stoned to death in the country’s staunchly conservative Aceh province. The law—which also allows punishments of up to 400 lashes for child rape, 100 lashes for homosexual acts and 60 lashes for gambling—was passed unanimously on Monday by lawmakers in the region at Sumatra island’s northern tip. The law replaces elements of Indonesia ’s criminal code with sharia, or Islamic law, for Muslims. It allows the death penalty for a married person and 100 lashes for an unmarried person found guilty in cases of adultery. “The laws that have been approved in Aceh are cruel and degrading to humanity,” National Commission on Human Rights head Ifdhal Kasim said. The law undermines the secular basis of Indonesia ’s law, Kasim said, adding the rights group was appealing to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to review the legislation. “This will bring Aceh back to the past. Throwing stones is like Aceh in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries,” Kasim said, adding the law would likely embolden conservatives pushing for sharia on a national level. The controversial legal change was passed in Aceh just weeks before a new, more moderate provincial assembly—dominated by the Aceh Party of former separatist fighters of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) - is due to take power. The administration of Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf, himself a former GAM fighter, is opposed to the strict sharia law, but has said it is powerless to stop the law, which will come into effect in 30 days with or without his signature. “(The law) only deals with petty crimes, adulterers, but it doesn’t deal with (significant crimes such as) corrupt officials,” Human Rights Watch spokesman Andreas Harsono said. “In our opinion it is against the principle of human rights,” he said. Human Rights Working Group head Rafendi Djamin said the punishments set out in the law were “humiliating and degrading” and a product of politicking among local leaders. “They’re more interested in private issues than issues of the wider public interest like corruption and measures to empower people who have been suffering in the wake of conflict,” Djamin said. Arif Budimanta, a senior official of the opposition Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, condemned the law—despite local members having voted for it in the Aceh assembly. “We are deeply concerned about this cruel law as it is against our national ideology and values of pluralism,” he said. Spokesmen for Yudhoyono, a liberal ex-general re-elected by a landslide earlier this year, could not be reached for comment. The country’s Supreme Court sent a team of judges to Aceh following the law’s passage to investigate whether it “collides” with established laws, news website Detikcom reported. Ma’ruf Amin, the head of the Indonesian Council of Ulema, Indonesia ’s top Islamic body, welcomed the new hardline law. “The council supports sharia law in areas where it is allowed, like Aceh, which has special autonomy. It’s not a matter of good or bad. “For Muslims, sharia law is the best and can be implemented anytime, anywhere. As long as there is agreement from everyone, there’s no problem,” Amin said. Aceh previously adopted a milder form of Shariah law in 2001 as part of an autonomy package from Jakarta aimed at quelling local separatist sentiment. The Shariah code enforced religious observation and offered lighter punishments—includin g caning—for gambling, drinking and association between unmarried members of the opposite sex. Separatists in Aceh had been fighting the Indonesian government since 1976 until a peace deal in 2005 in a conflict that claimed over 15,000 lives. Nearly 90% of Indonesia’s 234mn people are Muslim, but the country also has significant Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and Confucian minorities. Most Muslims practise a moderate form of the religion.
