The Indonesian military often carried out virginity tests on women recruits under the guise of a health assessment. The practice may finally be coming to an end soon
Indonesian army will end “virginity tests” on female cadets, the army’s chief Andika Perkasa said on Wednesday.
While the security forces halted the examination in 2014, and police forces followed the lead a year later, the military maintained the decades-old practice. Dozens of women were subjected to the “virginity test” when they married into military families in Indonesia also quietly spoke out against the practice, Human Rights Watch“The examination can be painful, humiliating and traumatic.
“It is sexual abuse,” Andreas Harsono, a researcher for Human Rights Watch told the New York Times. “It is sexual violence.”
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