The man and woman, whose ages were not disclosed, both received 21 cane lashes in a public park in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.
Dozens of onlookers watched the caning, with some calling for the officials who carried out the punishment to "whip stronger", an AFP reporter saw.
A woman, part of an unmarried couple seen kissing on a Tiktok livestream, is caned as punishment under sharia law in Banda Aceh on July 2, 2026. Photo by AFP
The couple was reported to the authorities after they were seen kissing during a livestream on the video app TikTok, which prompted an investigation that led to their punishment, the city's sharia police head Muhammad Rizal told reporters on Thursday.
"They clearly violated the Islamic sharia," Rizal said, adding that it was the first time in the religiously conservative province that people were punished for violating sharia law through social media.
