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Health Official Claims Circumcision Guidelines Prevent Female Mutilation
Dessy Sagita | October 22, 2011

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reville
4:54pm Oct 23, 2011

All Circumcision of children is a barbaric and disgusting practice and should be outlawed. It is a form of child abuse of the most serious kind

Good,Bad and Ugly
7:02am Oct 23, 2011

Another minister that should have been replaced; either for complete ignorance if he has not bothered to educate himself on modern medical practices or ethics or pure stupidity for still living in the dark ages.

This 'circumcision' has absolutely NO purpose except that it is a relic of control over women by men.

There is no 'pro' to this procedure.

Traditionally the procedure was a complete removal of the clitoris in order to destroy the natural inclination and joy of sex, and the sewing up of the vaginal opening to ensure absolutely the virginity of women by selfish and arrogant men over their property.

TLCTugger
11:35pm Oct 22, 2011

^^ porn movies. All the actors are circumcised ^^

That's absurd. The top male performer three years in a row at the AVN awards (the porn "Oscars") is Manuel Ferrara, an intact man.

Foreskin feels REALLY good.


mauriceg
12:44pm Oct 22, 2011

Madness at work. Truly one never seems to have recovered from hearing about the last helpings of deranged religious lunacy when a new strain of pious perversion is foisted on the superstitious and ill-educated faithful. Indonesia is going down the plughole in a frenzy of monumental stupidity. One knows who to blame. One knows what belief system has brought this on. No wonder the Islamic world is so far behind civilised humanity.

marko1
11:23am Oct 22, 2011

Were Adam and Eve circumcised?

Also Circumcised people are what drives porn movies. All the actors are Circumucised, do the religious people want to claim they have fueled the porn industry?

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The Health Ministry has spoken out against criticism by women’s rights activists and health experts of a ministerial guideline on female circumcision, saying the instruction was issued specifically to combat genital mutilation.

Ministry spokeswoman Murti Utami said that many families, especially in rural areas, still believed in the importance of circumcising female babies for religious reasons.

“I would like to stress that female circumcision is not genital mutilation, which is indeed dangerous. They are two things that are very different,” she said on Friday.

In June, community organizations spoke out in a letter to the government, opposing the ministerial instruction, which directs health professionals not to cut a girl’s genitals but to “scrape the skin covering the clitoris, without injuring the clitoris.”

Medical experts also spoke out against the ministry’s move. “This will give doctors a new motivation to circumcise [girls] because now they can say the Ministry of Health approves of this, and the Indonesian Council of Ulema [MUI] approves of it,” said Jurnalis Uddin, a doctor and lecturer at Yarsi University in Jakarta.

On Friday, Murti said the ministerial instruction, which was issued in June, governed procedures for female circumcision in cases where it is deemed necessary by families. It did not constitute government support for the practice, she claimed.

“The minister wants to protect girls from genital mutilation,” she said.

Murti added that the guidelines provided directions on performing the procedure properly and safely and required that circumcision must only be carried out with parental consent. Furthermore, parents must be given information beforehand on pros and cons of the procedure.

Circumcision is typically done at birth, or before a girl reaches the age of 5. Traditionally, the procedure was mostly symbolic, with a small cut made on the clitoris, or by rubbing it with tumeric root..

However, Uddin said he had found that when medical practitioners performed the procedure, there was a trend toward more extensive cutting of the clitoris.