Why does Indonesia demand that female military recruits are virgins?

[DrLeftover]

15 May 2015

Human rights activists want Indonesia to stop so-called virginity tests being used in the recruitment of female military recruits.

"Bonkers", "primitive" and "unscientific" are words used to describe it by one of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers who interviewed women who had been subjected to the test.

The World Health Organization has said: "There is no place for virginity testing; it has no scientific validity."

HRW says the tests are also discriminatory and have no bearing on a woman's ability to perform her job.

What's happening in Indonesia?
Virginity tests are obligatory for female military and national police recruits who are typically high school graduates aged between 18 and 20. HRW's research indicates that the air force, army and navy have for decades also used the test on the fiancees of military officers before marriage.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32748248


It would seem that the so called "war on women" has spread.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I would not say spreading, but always been there and we hear once again as always dead silence from western feminists. You would have to toss the dice on who is more silent, so called moderate Muslims which I hate that term or the feminists.

 

[DrLeftover]

It is worth noting that the country is almost 90% Muslim, and that while religious freedom is the law, the practice of that ideal leaves something to be desired.

It also highlights the fact that those that talk about a "war on women" in the US and UK and other 'western' countries, have no idea how lucky they are to live where they can talk about it without being charged with apostasy and then publicly executed.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

It is worth noting that the country is almost 90% Muslim, and that while religious freedom is the law, the practice of that ideal leaves something to be desired.

It also highlights the fact that those that talk about a "war on women" in the US and UK and other 'western' countries, have no idea how lucky they are to live where they can talk about it without being charged with apostasy and then publicly executed.

I know when my wife hears war on women here in the U.S. she just laughs at the ridiculousness of it. Put these women in the Ecuadorian work force as women and they would last a day with men there. The idea of women not having equality here with men is laughable in her eyes.