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An Australian is in legal strife in an Indonesian province that uses Sharia law. Here's what you need to know

Law officials used a rattan cane to whip two men convicted of gambling in the Aceh region last month.  (AP Photo: Rahmat Mirza)

An Australian man has been arrested in Indonesia's Aceh province after allegedly going on a drunken naked rampage.

Aceh is the country's most conservative province and also the only one that practises Sharia law, which non-Muslims can choose to be tried under.

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