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Ending virginity testing in TNI is not enough – University

By Kimberly Carbonell
March 2, 2022
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Aulia Shifa Hamida (The Jakarta Post)

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Wed, March 2, 2022

Even though the decades-old virginity tests for prospective female recruits and soldiers’ fiancées are no longer practiced in the Indonesian Army (TNI), a thorough review and amendment of the Administrative Discretion Act is urgently needed. urgency to ensure that such discriminatory practices have no place in the country.

Until mid-2021, the TNI required candidates and soldiers’ fiancées to undergo a two-finger exam. virginity test performed on their clitoris to determine if they were sexually active.

The TNI and the government justified this practice on grounds of health and morality. As a reminder, when he was the commander of the TNI, Moeldokonow presidential chief of staff, said while there was no correlation between a woman’s virginity and her ability to serve in the military, virginity was an indicator of her morality .

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