The Rejang Lebong Customary Consultative Body Joins Cambuk Sanctions For Asusila Perpetrators

Screenshot - Implementation of caning for immoral perpetrators carried out by BMA Rejang Lebong in 2022. ANTARA/HO

REJANG LEBONG - The Indigenous Consultative Body (BMA) of Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu Province applies caning for immoral perpetrators. "In the customary law of Rejang Lebong Regency, there are fines that must be met, there are sanctions that must be given, not the issue of money but to provide a deterrent effect," said Head of BMA Rejang Lebong Ahmad Faizir, in Rejang Lebong, Antara, Tuesday, January 17th The sentence imposed can be in the form of caning law, then paraded around the village, and paying customary fines. The application of customary law to perpetrators of this immoral case, he said, is so that in the future people are afraid to do the same thing. The application of this sentence is enforced as long as it can still be completed at the BMA level through a restorative justice program and if it cannot, it will be continued to the police. "Not only immoral cases, but also cases that lead to adultery, for example a man who takes a wife away. This caning is applied not only to a husband or wife and a young couple," he also said. According to him, these immoral perpetrators were each subject to 100 lashes, and also had to pay fines in accordance with customary law provisions and were required to wash the village by slaughtering two goats. So far, there have been four cases of immorality, adultery or infidelity reported by the public to BMA Rejang Lebong, so that they were sentenced to caning throughout 2022. "Meanwhile, in 2023 there has been one case that has been sentenced to caning, the case involves the head of the hamlet who cheats on him with another person's wife that occurred in the Bermani Ulu Raya District," said Ahmad Faizir.