A World Health Organization study suggests that more than a quarter of women have experienced violence in a relationship at some point in their lives even as teenagers.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Even though the decades-long virginity testing for prospective female recruits and soldiers’ fiancées is no longer in practice in the Indonesian Military (TNI), a thorough review and amendment of the law concerning administrative discretion is urgently needed to make sure such gender-based discriminatory practices have no place in the country.