Dog-collar necklaces and chains were also taken from the youths before they were thrown in pools of water for "spiritual" cleansing, Indonesian local police chief Iskandar Hasan said on Wednesday.
…. The crackdown marked the latest effort by authorities to promote strict moral values in Aceh, the only province in this secular but predominantly Muslim nation of 240 million to have imposed Islamic laws. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
