{"id":34851,"date":"2021-08-06T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/indonesia-army-signals-end-to-virginity-test-for-female-recruits"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:53:26","slug":"indonesia-army-signals-end-to-virginity-test-for-female-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34851","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia army signals end to \u2018virginity test\u2019 for female recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights groups welcome chief of staff\u2019s apparent decision to end the decades-long, \u2018abusive\u2019 practice<\/p>\n<p>Human rights organisations have welcomed the Indonesian army\u2019s apparent decision to end the \u201cabusive\u201d and long-criticised \u201cvirginity testing\u201d of female recruitments.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure is known in Indonesia as \u201cthe two-finger test\u201d, because during the examination the doctors would insert two fingers inside the woman\u2019s vagina to check whether the hymen is still intact or not. Those declared not to be a virgin would be rejected for recruitment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/indonesia-army-signals-end-to-virginity-test-for-female-recruits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights groups welcome chief of staff\u2019s apparent decision to end the decades-long, \u2018abusive\u2019 practiceHuman rights organisations have welcomed the Indonesian army\u2019s apparent decision to end the \u201cabusive\u201d and long-criticised \u201cvirginity testing\u201d of f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[156,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34852,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34851\/revisions\/34852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}