Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Indonesia's
'discriminatory, cruel and degrading' test for female police recruits
A married woman
can’t be a policewoman in Indonesia. This sounds odd enough in most of the modern
societies. But there is more. Even unmarried women who want to be police women
are required to undergo a painful and degrading manual virginity test in addition
to regular medical and physical tests. According to the police department, the
purpose of such requirements are to make sure that the candidates’ health and
physical condition will not harm them when admitted into police force, as well
as to assure that the candidates don’t possess any communicable diseases. How
does it sound? What are the qualifications to perform the police duties? Are
they so different between men and women, married or unmarried or sexually
experienced or not?
Enjoy reading and
learning about this on-going harassing practice in Indonesia.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/19/world/asia/indonesia-police-recruits-virginity-test/index.html?hpt=hp_c5
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