You may have seen reports in the media over the last week about an (allegedly) Australian couple holidaying on one of the more remote Indonesian islands who were (allegedly) seen on CCTV trying to steal a bicycle. the island is virtually crime free normally so they have some difficulties in operating a judicial system and they came to an agreement where the pair were paraded around the island carrying a sign that described them as a "Thieve" (sic).
Given that, in parts of Indonesia, the judicial system uses corporal punishment, many will consider that they got off lightly with a rather humiliating walk of shame before being banned from the island, and some of the media (such as the BBC) in reporting the story, did them a further favour by blurring their faces in the pictures they used. Enough media sources didn't bother so presumably they will have faced further humiliation on returning home.
Full story can be read here.
Given that, in parts of Indonesia, the judicial system uses corporal punishment, many will consider that they got off lightly with a rather humiliating walk of shame before being banned from the island, and some of the media (such as the BBC) in reporting the story, did them a further favour by blurring their faces in the pictures they used. Enough media sources didn't bother so presumably they will have faced further humiliation on returning home.
Full story can be read here.
2 comments:
This sort of public humiliation was commonly used in the Middle Ages. More recently I've seen that some American parents are doing this by making their kids wear placards with their 'crime' written on and then standing them at street corners.
Perhaps corporal punishment will make the same sort of comeback. After all it is considerably cheaper than other methods.
Old Tom
Fascinating as always James. Let me be clear James, I am totally against capital punishment everywhere and anywhere & always have been, I have strongly, actively advocated against it all my life ....especially as an American citizen "of the South", of Georgia State. I continue to do so.
I am also totally against all and any judicial canings like those awarded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & some African countries. It is barbaric & I detest it most strongly & vehemently. I am also against public humiliation too.
As a 66 year old Southern belle (older, not former ha-ha!) , I was raised with normal corporal punishment at home in the 1960s by a strict, loving, pious mother who used a flexible, thin, quality, rattan cane. Moreover, from a young age, for my sister & me, our botties were bared too, without exception. It was harsh, fair & harmless. No quarter given. But by God it stung !!! Quite right too. That was the idea. And the church endorsed it fiercely.
I raised my own two wonderful daughters the exact same way in the 1980s/90s. I kept that same "botty smacker" cane in the cupboard, handy at the front. And one or two pairs of lil' cotton panties gotten pulled down for stern, traditional, Southern tickle tale on sensitive, bare bottoms when misbehaviour ensued. Period !
So this very naughty, disgraced girl in the picture above would have had her dress pulled up & her knickers pulled down to feel the cane on her bare buttocks (whenever she was naughty and whenever I deemed it necessary !) from yours truly if she had been raised in yore, strictly and lovingly, like my own daughters in my house. Pray, then maybe she would not be in the predicament she was then in James ?
Bare, red bottoms are a fact of life for daughters growing up in my book, James. Yes, it s necessary. Yes, it stings. Yes, it is harmless. Yes, it is salutary !
Oh my! As a young girl in the 1960s I vividly recall how would ask my mom why she always pulled my panties down for the cane on my bare botty ?
"Because it is punishment, Brenda !" she said scarily and all too briefly.
GULP! GULP! Indeed ! For sure mom !
No elaboration required, James. How right she was.
Thanks & kind regards
Brenda xx
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