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  • Female Police Recruits In Indonesia Made To Go Through Virginity Tests

    Female Police Recruits In Indonesia Made To Go Through Virginity Tests

    Indonesia must stop subjecting female police recruits to physical tests in an effort to determine whether they are virgins, a leading human rights group said today (Nov 18), describing the practice as degrading and discriminatory.

    Human Rights Watch said in a report that such tests were a longstanding practice in Indonesia, where patriarchal attitudes and practices in the security forces are common.

    The report was based on interviews with female police officers and police applicants in six Indonesian cities who had undergone the so called “two-finger” test to determine whether their hymens are intact.

    The requirement is even posted on the jobs website for Indonesia’s national police. It reads: “In addition to the medical and physical tests, women who want to be policewomen must also undergo virginity tests. So all women who want to become policewomen should keep their virginity.”

    Citing medical experts, Human Rights Watch said the physical tests are useless in determining virginity.

    Indonesian police spokesman Major-General Ronny Sompie urged people not “respond negatively” to the tests, saying they were aimed at ensuring applicants were free from sexually transmitted diseases. He said both male and female recruits also get blood tests for STDs.

    “All of this is done in a professional manner and did not harm the applicants,” Maj-Gen Sompie said.

    Human Rights Watch has documented the use of abusive virginity tests by police in several other countries, including Egypt, India and Afghanistan.

    In a video interview recorded by the group, a 24-year-old Indonesian woman said she was among 20 applicants who underwent the test.

    “I feared that after they performed the test I would not be a virgin anymore,” she told the group in a silhouetted video interview. “They inserted two fingers with gels … it really hurt.”

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • SCDF And SPF Used Real Foreign Workers In Riot Simulation Exercise

    SCDF And SPF Used Real Foreign Workers In Riot Simulation Exercise

    Just when you thought the human rights transgression in Singapore cannot get worse, it surprises you with what else it can do.

    Apparently, the government wanted to test the Singapore Police Force and the Singapore Civil Defence Force on how they would respond if a riot occurs at the foreign worker dormitories.

    “What if some quarrels erupt, leading to fights or worse?,” National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan asked on his Facebook.

    “To test our response capability, the Police, the SCDF, the dorms operators and our grassroots organisations organised a simulation exercise recently.

    “It was a useful way to network up the various agencies, and spread preventive messages.

    “Prevention is always better than cure,” Mr Khaw said.

    Sounds like a disease?

    No, actually Mr Khaw is talking about actual human beings here – yes, the foreign workers who build the flats that his ministry manages.

    And to conduct the test, actual foreign workers were asked to “riot” so that the police and civil defence could then quell the riot.

    It is uncertain why Indian workers were used or why it seems that a drill needs to be conducted specifically with foreign workers.

    Mr Khaw also said that, “given the concentration of foreign workers in one locality”, “These are possible scenarios (that they can riot).”

    As if it is not bad enough that the foreign workers in these dormitories earn the lowest wages in Singapore – as low as $300 to $500 every month, they are made to take part in exercises that discriminates against them.

    On 8 December last year, a riot took place in Little India, after a private bus knocked down and killed a foreign worker from India. The government blamed the riot on the rioters having drunk alcohol.

    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had said, “We should not generalise a group because of some individuals. I don’t think that is fair or justifiable because their (foreign workers) crime rates are, in fact, lower than Singaporeans in general.”

    Sure, and this is why we need to conduct an exercise on riot management at a foreign worker dormitory.

     

    Source: www.therealsingapore.com