Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police
How an Indonesian policewoman campaigned to ban intrusive examinations of female recruits
Witness History · BBC World Service
December 6, 20218m 59s
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Show Notes
In the early 2000s, Sri Rumiati, a brigadier-general in the Indonesian police, began campaigning against intrusive examinations of female recruits to her force. Rumiati had experienced a so-called "virginity test" herself when she joined up two decades earlier. She spoke to Petra Zivic.
(Photo: Indonesian policewomen in 2007. Credit: Getty Images)