JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The suicide of a teenage girl in Aceh should prompt officials to rethink harsh penalties for public behaviour imposed by sharia, a member of the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) told The Jakarta Post.

The girl, identified as 16-year-old P. E., was at a concert in Langsa, Aceh, on September 3rd when sharia police apprehended her and harangued her in public for allegedly engaging in prostitution.

Her story was picked up the next day by local media outlets, some of whom identified the girl by her full name.

The teen hanged herself in her room three days later, leaving a note behind to her family insisting she had done nothing wrong but felt nothing but shame. "Now I don't know where to go anymore ... I have no purpose anymore,” she wrote, according to Okezone News.

"This incident has created a good opportunity for the leaders of Aceh and the rest of Indonesia to rethink the use of moralistic laws,” Komnas Perempuan commissioner Andy Yentriyani said on Thursday.

Sharia law, introduced in Aceh in 2002, imposes strict limits on what people are allowed to do in public.

Fery Kusuma, who heads a watchdog desk at the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, said the application of sharia in Aceh is prone to abuse. The suicide, the latest in a series of sharia-related incidents, should serve as a wake-up call to the government, he added.