The two men, ages 20 and 21, were arrested in April after residents saw them entering the same bathroom at a park in Indonesia and reported it to police.

Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law was implemented in 2015 as a concession made by the government to end a long-running separatist rebellion.

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two college students to 80 lashes each in public after they were found guilty of engaging in what the court described as sexual acts,