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The women – who are 22 and 32 – were fined around $1,100 AUD and sentenced to six strokes of the cane.

Aceh’s governor had decreed earlier this year that corporal punishments would only take place inside prisons or detention centres.

The Indonesian province uses corporal punishment for crimes including gay sex.

Canings and floggings of men for gay sex are still occurring, but in private rather than in front of crowds.