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"Female military applicants in Indonesia are subjected to virginity tests - including the discredited "two finger test" to determine if the hymen is intact - in order to recruit the "best people" to the armed forces.
Human Rights Watch is lobbying countries - including Australia - who are attending an international conference on military medicine in Bali next week, to urge Indonesian president Joko Widodo to abolish the "discriminatory and invasive testing".
Indonesian military spokesman Major-General Fuad Basya told Fairfax Media virginity tests were performed on female candidates as part of health tests required to enter the military.
It is done in order to get the best people both physically and mentally," General Fuad said.
He said doctors would know if the female candidate had lost her hymen due to an accident or another reason.
She would then have to explain why her hymen was no longer intact.
"If it is due to an accident we can still consider it but if it's due to another reason, well, we cannot accept her."
General Fuad said the tests were already in place in 1977 when he entered the military.
He said military personnel needed to be mentally fit because they had to carry guns to guard Indonesia's integrity and sovereignty. "It is very important." "
"Female military applicants in Indonesia are subjected to virginity tests - including the discredited "two finger test" to determine if the hymen is intact - in order to recruit the "best people" to the armed forces.
Human Rights Watch is lobbying countries - including Australia - who are attending an international conference on military medicine in Bali next week, to urge Indonesian president Joko Widodo to abolish the "discriminatory and invasive testing".
Indonesian military spokesman Major-General Fuad Basya told Fairfax Media virginity tests were performed on female candidates as part of health tests required to enter the military.
It is done in order to get the best people both physically and mentally," General Fuad said.
He said doctors would know if the female candidate had lost her hymen due to an accident or another reason.
She would then have to explain why her hymen was no longer intact.
"If it is due to an accident we can still consider it but if it's due to another reason, well, we cannot accept her."
General Fuad said the tests were already in place in 1977 when he entered the military.
He said military personnel needed to be mentally fit because they had to carry guns to guard Indonesia's integrity and sovereignty. "It is very important." "
