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Women in Indonesia are being forced to undergo a virginity test before they can join the police force.
The test involves a medical practitioner carrying out a physical examination of a woman to check whether her hymen is intact. Confirming this is an ad on the police force’s website which reads: “All women who want to become policewomen should keep their virginity”.
And while senior police officers say the tests to determine if that standard is being met have been abolished, Human Rights Watch says that’s not true — that these “painful and traumatic … virginity tests”, which it says violate human rights, are still being administered, Time magazine reports.
