COMMISSIONS: Sharia Law in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia: aceh012

Youth hang out at the new garden park along the Aceh River, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 In 2003, the provincial government of Aceh Province implemented a moderate form of sharia law on conduct and dress in their effort to reclaim Aceh as the Islamic capital of SE Asia. Sharia law also prohibits men and women, who are not blood relatives or married to one another, from being together in an isolated place

Youth hang out at the new garden park along the Aceh River, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 In 2003, the provincial government of Aceh Province implemented a moderate form of sharia law on conduct and dress in their effort to reclaim Aceh as the Islamic capital of SE Asia. Sharia law also prohibits men and women, who are not blood relatives or married to one another, from being together in an isolated place