Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law was implemented in 2015 as a concession made by the government to end a long-running separatist rebellion.

A sharia court in Indonesia has sentenced to men to public caning 80 times each after they were caught kissing. Their trial at the Islamic Shariah District Court in Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province, was held behind closed doors. The sentence was handed down on Monday.