Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Indonesia to stop requiring female military recruits to undergo virginity tests.
The watch group termed the hymen examination "harmful and humiliating," reported the BBC.
The Indonesian military had defended the virginity tests by saying that it barred immoral women from joining the armed forces.
However, Indonesia' police faced widespread condemnation for requiring the tests. HRW and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) opposed the practice ahead of a conference on military medicine in Bali, Indonesia.
While terming the examination "a gross violation of women's rights," IRCT said that it amounted to ill-treatment and torture under international law.
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