FILE PHOTO: Indonesian army soldiers carry their weapons during the last day of a seven-day training exercise in Sukabumi, West Java province December 6, 2006. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi/File Photo
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian army has ended a controversial practice of virginity tests on women who apply to become cadets, according to its chief of staff, a move welcomed by activists who have long campaigned against it.
"Two-finger tests", where doctors check the hymen of female recruits to try to determine their virginity, was systematic, abusive and cruel, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), which conducted investigations in 2014 https://bit.ly/2VKXX9R and 2015 https://bit.ly/3jCyes4 into the practice and in 2017 https://bit.ly/3fRDpDD renewed calls for it to end.
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