Ending virginity testing in Indonesian military is not enough: Jakarta Post

Soldiers of the Indonesian Army take part in a roll call at the Women Army Corps Education Center in Bandung. The Army has stopped the so-called virginity testing for women recruits and fiancées of soldiers.- Courtesy of Indonesian Army This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title "Ending virginity testing in TNI is not enough ". Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2022/03/01/ending-virginity-testing-in-tni-is-not-enough.html. Download The Jakarta Post app for easier and faster news access: Android: http://bit.ly/tjp-android iOS: http://bit.ly/tjp-ios

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Even though the decades-long virginity testing for prospective female recruits and soldiers’ fiancées is no longer in practice in the Indonesian Military (TNI), a thorough review and amendment of the law concerning administrative discretion is urgently needed to make sure such gender-based discriminatory practices have no place in the country.

Until mid-2021, the TNI required female applicants and soldiers’ fiancées to undergo a two-fingered virginity test performed on their clitoris to determine whether they were sexually active.