The enactment of corporal punishment in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is
one of the efforts of local government in realizing Islamic society. This
corporal punishment is one of the alternatives for national criminal law
policy in preventing crime which keeps increasing. This research aims to
identify the background, implementation, and effectiveness of the corporal
punishment in Qanun No. 14 Year 2003 for crime prevention and
establishment of Islamic society in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province.
This research is the field research, in Banda Aceh City, with the normative
and empirical juridical approaches. Primary, secondary, and tertiary data
sources were obtained through the field and document studies related to the
topic of research using the content of qualitative descriptive analysis in
which the instrument of research is the researcher. This research shows the
result that implementation of the corporal punishment in Nanggroe Aceh
Darussalam is still limited to the caning as one of the criminal sanctions,
particularly in handling the case of khalwat (close proximity). However, the
implementation of corporal punishment, in this case, has a quite effective
role in the process of establishing an Islamic society in Nanggroe Aceh
Darussalam