Jakarta. It was an ordeal will not soon forget Vienna 18 years: undressing in front of other women her age as 20 medical staff at a hospital in Bandung, West Java, virginity testing.
"They were ordered to enter a room and told to lie down. Then take a medical staff, a woman, a test 'two fingers'," Vienna, not his real name, told Human Rights Watch Video released on Tuesday.
The so-called virginity tests were discredited techniques to determine whether the woman's hymen is still intact. Hymen can drill holes for a variety of factors other than sexual intercourse, such as strenuous exercise.
"I [was] to shame and fear of having to follow the virginity tests. There are candidates who fainted due to stress." Rigorous testing occurred only last year, said the woman, and virginity testing is part of the health testing as a prerequisite for entering the police.
"I learned about virginity tests only when I want to do a physical examination and [said] that there was' an internal review." At first I did not know that it is a virginity test. "
The selection committee, said Vienna, said applicants that they can release the selection process if the candidate does not want to go through a virginity test. But most were subjected to so much preparation for the requirements applicable to all of them agree.
"I feel I have the strength to resist because I refused to undergo a virginity test, will not be able to go to the police," he said. Vienna is one of many female police officers and police applicants are interviewed by a human rights group based in New York between May and October this year.
All women who have undergone the test HRW said that all the women in their class police will undergo virginity tests as well.
Applicants who have "failed" is not necessarily driven out of style, but all the women described the trial as a painful and traumatic.
Women who apply said they raised the issue with senior police officers, claimed that sometimes the practice stopped. However, the test will still be listed as a requirement for female applicants official recruitment website of the National Police: "Women who want to be a policewoman had to undergo virginity tests So every woman who wants to be a policewoman must remain. Virginity them.
Women who are married do not qualify.
Human rights activists and medical professionals say the practice of inserting two fingers into the vagina police recruited 'to determine their purity is no basis in medical science, and subsequently interfere, degrading and painful.
HRW said the test is still widely used, although its selective and unscientific.
The Jakarta Globe spoke with a young woman on condition of anonymity, said his former ambition to become a Police officer - was inspired by a close family member who worked as a policeman in big cities in Indonesia - drowned virginity tests.
The girl told the Jakarta Globe that, in anticipation of police virginity test test, he saved approximately USD 10,000,000 ($ 820) to undergo hymenoplasty to rebuild her hymen, with A doctor who operates clandestinely in North Jakarta. The operation was a success - until I went prospective recruit younger police on horseback around a week later. He now works for a foreign police.
Yefri Heriyani, director of women's rights group Women of Conscience in Padang, West Sumatra, which has undergone many female police applicants in the past 12 years, said that virginity testing many women left traumatized.
"A female police trauma and stress while performing virginity tests, but [the make of the National Police] no apparent attempt to help them recover. No attempt was made to help them out of their interests and trauma. Therefore, it will affect their lives in the long term. Many of them blame themselves for taking the test, "said Yefri.
A female police cadets who took the test this year in Pekanbaru, Riau, rights groups say that the test was "embarrassing."
"My team of about 20 [applicant] was asked ... to undress us, including our bras and panties," he told the group. "Only those who are menstruating can save [wear] pants." The woman said she was asked to sit at a table while a female doctor making "two finger" test.
"I do not want to remember the bad experience. It was embarrassing. Why do we have to take our clothes in front of strangers?" The woman asked. "[The test] is promiscuous. It is not necessary. I think you should stop.
Officials said the "virginity tests" under the regulatory authority of Police Chief Health Examination Guidelines for police recruits. Article 36 obliges the police academy female applicants to undergo "Obstetrics and Gynecology" test.
Police officials acknowledged that such tests are used to manage, but denied that this is the case today.
"There is no such thing now," the Commissioner. General Badrodin Haiti, the deputy chief of the National Police, said on Tuesday as quoted by Detik.com. "You are old, for female officers in the old days," he added.
While the regulations do not specify that "virginity tests" that will be given as part of the test, two senior police told Human Rights Watch that they have long been customary, adding that the test is given to the first part of the recruitment process as part of the physical examination of the applicant.
Inspector. General Ronny F. Sompie, National Police spokesman, said the new members, both male and female, were tested for reproductive health.
"What we did during the election is a thorough medical examination [to] examine the reproductive parts of the body. So it is not a test of virginity," said Ronny.
He said reproductive health testing is required to ensure that applicants are healthy enough to undergo rigorous training regime police academy. He added that it is also to minimize the spread of sexually transmitted infections among the cadets during their time at the academy - an explanation seems to strain credulity, as cadets in the academy trained separately, both are very gender-separate environments.
There is little evidence that the police have taken steps to stop the test, says HRW. Human Rights Watch has documented the use of rough "virginity tests" by the police in various countries, including Egypt, India, and Afghanistan.
Some schools in Indonesia has been met with widespread criticism after it announced last year that they consider virginity testing as part of their registration requirements.
"So-called virginity tests and choose the form of gender-based violence - not the size of the eligibility of women for a career in the police," said Nisha Varia, associate director of women's rights HRW.
"This deadly skills can not only make a woman out of the police, but blocking all Indonesian people from the police with the officials really worth."
"Using the 'virginity tests' The Indonesian National Police is discriminatory practices that harm and humiliate women," said Varia. "Jakarta police authorities must immediately and decisively to cancel the test, and then make sure to stop monitoring that all the national police recruiting station."
"Trials virginity" has been recognized internationally as a violation of human rights, especially the prohibition of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" in Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and Article 16 of the Convention against Torture, which both Indonesia has ratified.
HRW said the practice also violates the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and other human rights treaties because people do not undergo virginity tests.
His deputy practice of discrimination against women because they have the effect or purpose of providing a basis of equality of women with men the right to work as police, the group said.
Forced virginity tests compromise the dignity of women and violate their physical and mental integrity, says HRW. Retired Police said one female recruit class in 1965 should be tested - and have a lasting impact.
The Police planned to increase the number of women who apply to 21,000 in December. With a total strength of about 400,000 police, women are expected to generate 5 percent of the force, up from 3 percent today.
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