Editing Aceh (section)

=== Human rights ===
Caning has increasingly been used as a form of judicial punishment in Aceh.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/indonesia-man-flogged-adultery-law-helped-draw-aceh Indonesian man flogged after breaking adultery law he helped draw up] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101114014/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/indonesia-man-flogged-adultery-law-helped-draw-aceh |date=1 November 2019 }} The Guardian, 2019</ref> This is backed by the governor of Aceh. At least 72 people were caned for various offences, including drinking alcohol, being alone with someone of the opposite sex who was not a marriage partner or relative (khalwat), gambling and for being caught having gay sex.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39996224 |title=Indonesian men caned for gay sex in Aceh |publisher=BBC News |date=23 May 2017| access-date=21 July 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030191016/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39996224| archive-date=30 October 2018| url-status=live}}</ref> The Acehnese authorities passed a series of by-laws governing the implementation of [[Sharia]] after the enactment of the province's Special Autonomy Law in 2001. In 2016 alone, 100 public caning cases were documented by human rights organizations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Two Indonesians sentenced to 85 lashes of cane for gay sex |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-indonesia-lgbt-caning-idUKKCN18D0QG |access-date=10 August 2021 |work=Reuters|date=17 May 2017 |archive-date=10 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810063345/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-indonesia-lgbt-caning-idUKKCN18D0QG |url-status=live }}</ref>

In January 2018, the Aceh police, with support from the Aceh autonomous government, raided hair salons known to have LGBT clients and staff as part of an ''operasi penyakit masyarakat'' ("community sickness operation"). The police abused all LGBT citizens within the premises of the parlors and arrested twelve transgender women. The arrested trans women were stripped topless, had their heads shaved, and were forced to chant insults at themselves as part of a [[Conversion therapy|process "until they really become men"]]. The intent of the incident was to reverse what officials deemed a "social disease" and that parents were coming to them upset at the increasing number of LGBT individuals in Aceh.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42859473 |title=Indonesia police cut trans women's hair |last=Indonesian |date=2018 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=2018-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406061511/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42859473 |archive-date=6 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/29/indonesian-police-arrest-12-transgender-women-and-shave-their-heads-to-make-them-men/ |title=Police arrest 12 trans women and shave their heads 'to make them men' |work=PinkNews |access-date=2018-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816191611/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/29/indonesian-police-arrest-12-transgender-women-and-shave-their-heads-to-make-them-men/ |archive-date=16 August 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The event was decried by human rights organizations local and worldwide, such as [[Amnesty International]]. Usman Hamid stated for the Indonesia branch of the organization that "cutting the hair of those arrested to 'make them masculine' and forcing them to dress like men are forms of [[public humiliation|public shaming]] and amount to cruel, [[inhuman or degrading treatment|inhuman and degrading treatment]], in contravention of Indonesia's international obligations".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-lgbt/rights-groups-decry-shaming-of-transgender-people-in-indonesias-aceh-province-idUSKBN1FJ1B2 |title=Rights groups decry 'shaming' of transgender people in Indonesia's... |date=30 January 2018 |work=Reuters|access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124210808/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-lgbt/rights-groups-decry-shaming-of-transgender-people-in-indonesias-aceh-province-idUSKBN1FJ1B2 |archive-date=24 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>