Indonesian man gets whipped for breaking adultery law he helped drew

Indonesian has publicly whipped a man after he was caught having an affair with a married woman.

The man, Mukhlis Bin Muhammad of the Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) also worked for an organisation that helped draft strict adultery laws.

Muhammad was flogged 28 times while the woman he had an affair with got 23 strokes.

Mukhlis is from the deeply conservative Aceh region, the only place in Indonesia which practises the strict Islamic law, Sharia.

The 46-year-old is also an Islamic religious leader and he is the first religious leader to be publicly caned in Aceh since Sharia law came into force in 2005.