DESKRIPSI MATERI

PERTEMUAN 9: VIRGINITY TEST

English for Specific Purposes

MATA KULIAH : BAHASA INGGRIS 3

A. INTRODUCTION

In the ninth meeting, Reading comprehension will be given about Virginity Test. the
learning process about how to skim and to scan the text about Virginity Test. In this lesson the
students are hoped to be able to use and to understand the functions English Grammar. Intensive
Reading comprehension will be given in the ninth meeting. It is reading material which will
make the students think through the problems in the reading text about Virginity Test but also
the students must understand the use appropriate grammar in some contexts. The students will
be instructed to make the sentence or simple sentence which based on the instruction whiles the
learning process. Reading comprehension will guide the students to skim and to scan the text
which make the students think analyze about the situation in the text. After the learning process
the students are hoped to be able to :To write, to make a simple sentences, to make a dialogue,
to give comments from the text about Virginity Test and know more about the legal terms

B. OBJECTIVE OF THE LECTURE

The objectives of the learning process are hoped to make the students understand the text,
and meaning the passage about Virginity Test by retelling the summary of the passage , The
students understand some vocabularies concerning the law especially on Virginity Test , The
students will be guided to make a dialogue that connect to the text of Virginity Test even the
students will be able to give some comments and opinion about Virginity Test. The students will
be able to use the right grammar and functions of the language

C. MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Indonesia: Military Imposing ‘Virginity Tests’

International Military Medical Organization Should Urge Abolition

MAY 13, 2015 5:55PM EDT

(Jakarta) – International military physicians convening in Indonesia should urge President Joko
Widodo to abolish discriminatory and invasive “virginity tests” for female recruits and fiancées
of military officers in the Indonesian armed forces, Human Rights Watch said today.
TheInternational Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM), a Belgium-based intergovernmental
organization dedicated to fostering “professional collaboration between members of the Armed
Forces Medical Services of all States” will convene its world conference in Bali on May 17-22,
2015.The Indonesian military should immediately end the use of so-called virginity tests, which
violate the prohibition of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under international human
rights law.“The Indonesian armed forces should recognize that harmful and humiliating
‘virginity tests’ on women recruits does nothing to strengthen national security,” said Nisha
Varia, women’s rights advocacy director. “President Joko Widodo should set the military straight
and immediately abolish the requirement and prevent all military hospitals from administering
it.”Human Rights Watch sent letters to the ICMM and 16 member countries asking them to
urge the Indonesian armed forces to cease all “virginity tests.” A Human Rights Watch letter to
Maj. Gen. Daniel Tjen, the general surgeon of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, received
no response.Virginity testing is a form of gender-based violence and is a widely discredited
practice. In November 2014, the World Health Organization issued guidelines that stated,
“There is no place for virginity (or ‘two-finger’) testing; it has no scientific validity.”

Indonesia’s coordinating minister for politics, law, and security, Tedjo Edhi, acknowledged that
the military requires the tests on November 18, 2014, the day that Human Rights Watch issued a
report about “virginity testing” for female National Police candidates. Maj. Gen. Fuad Basya, the
armed forces spokesman, said that the Indonesian military has conducted “virginity testing” on
female recruits for even longer than the police, without specifying when the practice began.
Human Rights Watch research found that all branches of the military – air force, army, and navy
– have used the test for decades and also extended the requirement to the fiancées of military
officers.

Human Rights Watch interviewed 11 women – military recruits and fiancées of military officers
– who had undergone the test at military hospitals in Bandung, Jakarta, or Surabaya; a female
officer at the military health center; and a doctor who worked in a military hospital in Jakarta.
Applicants and fiancées who were deemed to have “failed” were not necessarily penalized, but
all of the women described the test as painful, embarrassing, and traumatic.

All of the women interviewed told Human Rights Watch that it was required of all other women
applying to enter the military or planning to marry military officers. They said that the only
women excluded were those with “powerful connections” or who bribed the military doctors
who administered the tests. Human Rights Watch found that the testing included the
invasive“two-finger test” to determine whether female applicants’ hymens are intact. Finger test
findings are scientifically baseless because an “old tear” of the hymen or variation of the “size”
of the hymenal orifice can be due to reasons unrelated to sex.

A military doctor at a military hospital in Jakarta told Human Rights Watch that the test is part
of the mandatory military exam. It is given early in the recruitment process as part of the
applicants’ physical exam. The doctor, who requested anonymity due to concerns about
reprisals, said the tests occur in military hospitals across the country with female military
applicants tested en masse in large halls divided into curtain-separated examination rooms.
Female military physicians typically conduct the test, although one woman told Human Rights
Watch that a man administered the procedure on her.

Officers who wish to marry require a letter of recommendation from their commanders, who
only issue such letters upon confirmation that the respective officer’s fiancée has undergone a
medical examination, including the “virginity test,” at a military hospital.

Female military recruits said that military officers informed them that the tests were crucial to
preserving “the dignity and the honor of the nation.” A retired air force officer wondered how
she could “defend the honor of our nation if we cannot defend our own honor” by undergoing
“virginity tests.” Two military wives said that they were told that “virginity tests” helped stabilize
“military families,” in which the husbands often travel for months.
Indonesia’s National Police responded to the Human Rights Watch exposure of police use of
“virginity testing” by supporting the practice. A senior police official, Inspector General
Moechgiyarto, on November 18 confirmed the requirement, defending it as a means of ensuring
“high moral standards.” He suggested to the media that those failing the test were prostitutes.

However, other government officials have publicly supported ending the practice. In December,
Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo announced that his ministry will stop administering
“virginity tests” to women aspiring to be civil servants. At a parliamentarian hearing on January
21, 2015, Health Minister Nila Moeloek promised to raise the issue at a cabinet meeting. Widodo
has so far not spoken publicly about “virginity testing” by government agencies.

Human Rights Watch has advocated ending “virginity testing” in other countries,
including Egypt, India, and Afghanistan. These procedures have been recognized internationally
as a violation of human rights, particularly the prohibition against cruel, inhuman, or degrading
treatment under article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article
16 of the Convention against Torture, both of which Indonesia has ratified.

“The Indonesian armed forces should immediately stop the discriminatory, arbitrary, and
gender-based violence of so-called virginity tests,” Varia said. “The ICMM should make clear to
the Indonesian military that this abusive practice has no place in a job application process or an
individual’s choice of whom to marry and should not be inflicted under a veneer of ‘military
medicine.’”

Exercises

1. Collect the vocabularies relating to the Viginity Test!

2. Retell the passage briefly.
3. In pairs, create a dialogue with your partner, the dialogue must contain at least 20
sentences and the dialogue must be related to the above passage.
4. Practice your dialogue with your partner!
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