Indonesia army signals end to ‘virginity test’ for female recruits

Human rights groups welcome chief of staff's apparent decision to end the decades-long, abusive' practice

Human rights organisations have welcomed the Indonesian army's apparent decision to end the abusive" and long-criticised virginity testing" of female recruitments.

The procedure is known in Indonesia as the two-finger test", because during the examination the doctors would insert two fingers inside the woman's vagina to check whether the hymen is still intact or not. Those declared not to be a virgin would be rejected for recruitment.