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Indonesia Rejects Proposal to Subject Girls to Virginity Tests
October 01, 2010

The Women’s Affairs Ministry says proposals from a provincial legislator to allow only virgin school girls to enter state universities would violate basic human rights. (JG Photo/Safir Makki) The Women’s Affairs Ministry says proposals from a provincial legislator to allow only virgin school girls to enter state universities would violate basic human rights. (JG Photo/Safir Makki)
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BilboBaggins
10:47am Oct 7, 2010

It appears from this incident that an intelligence test for lawmakers may be a more useful requirement.


what-the....
9:30am Sep 30, 2010

Peter R ...spot on

peterR
7:45am Sep 30, 2010

Tell you what, if its such a good bloody idea, start with all of the daughters of the countries all powerful governing Elite. And while at it, might as well throw in breathalysers for alcohol and blood tests for drugs.

aiu_haryadi
7:08am Sep 30, 2010

@Putrimawar: Can't agree more! His statement proves low quality of our so-called lawmaker!

misalamas
6:39am Sep 30, 2010

Ha, Virgin's are smart after all!!

Jakarta. The Indonesian government on Tuesday dismissed a provincial lawmaker’s proposal to force teenage schoolgirls to undergo virginity tests before they can enter state schools.

Women’s Affairs Ministry official Wahyu Hartomo said such tests would violate basic human rights and potentially harm the health of young women.

“That kind of test violates human rights and will have serious psychological impacts on students,” he said. “It is more effective for our generation to receive moral education from their parents at home, especially with the [bad] influence from the Internet.”

Lawmakers in Sumatra island’s Jambi province have agreed to drop the idea, which was proposed by local parliamentarian Bambang Bayu Suseno, Hartomo said.

Suseno believes girls should be required to pass virginity tests before they can enter state-funded high schools, citing concerns over pre-marital sex among teenagers in the Muslim-majority country.

Indonesian officials are struggling to balance the country’s rapid modernisation, especially the runaway growth of Internet use, with traditional, mainly Muslim values.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a controversial Anti-Pornography Law, backed filters against online pornography and warned that a “frenzy” of Internet use could tear the nation apart.

Earlier this year police entered classrooms to check teenage students’ mobile phones for evidence they had downloaded celebrity sex clips that went viral on the Internet, causing a national scandal.


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