A district in Indonesia’s deeply Islamic Aceh province has banned men and women from dining together unless they are married or related, according to an official who said it would help women be “more well behaved”, Agence-France Presse reports. Sharia in Aceh has been controversial ever since it was first introduced shortly after the downfall of Soeharto in 1998, when Jakarta was struggling to cope with an armed insurgency in the province. The conservative region on Sumatra island – the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia that follows Islamic law – passed a regulation in April that would put an end to public flogging. Under the law, the practice will be carried out behind prison walls.