Banda Aceh, NU Online
After it was revealed that a group of young married women in Aceh had met to raffle off young men to sleep with, an ulema in the province urged religious law enforcement officials to immediately address the issue.<>

“The Shariah Police, or Wilayatul Hisbah, has to uncover this shocking phenomena because the behavior of these young women who raffled men to sleep with has marred Aceh’s reputation, which is known to be a Shariah-based region,” Chairman of Regional Board of Nahdlatul Ulama of Aceh Teungku Faisal Ali said.

Dahlia, the chairwoman of the Aceh Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Agency (BP3A), said on Tuesday that her office first observed the practice in Banda Aceh a year ago among affluent, young and often married women.

“These young mothers get together in a cafe or a hotel and hold a raffle in which the prize is a sum of money that the winner uses to pay to sleep with a good-looking young man,” she said as quoted by the Jakarta Globe.

Dahlia added that the wives of certain public officials and prominent businessmen were known to participate in the raffles “just to get satisfaction from these young men,” but declined to name them.

Faisal, who is also the deputy chairman of Aceh’s Ulema Consultative Assembly (MPU), said that if the information conveyed by Dahlia is true, law enforcement officers had no reason to not investigate the practice.

“The head of BP3A must also submit the data to law enforcement officers so that they can be processed by the law that applies in Aceh,” Faisal told the Jakarta Globe.

“They could be charged for violating qanun [Islamic bylaws] and for khalwat [close proximity between members of the opposite sex].”

Editor: Sudarto Murtaufiq