Dgn adanya petunjuk gimana nyunat itil cewek ini, Indonesia sdh mengakui bhw 
Islam nyuruh nyunat itil cewek, krn kalo nyunat itil cewek itu cuma sekedar 
budaya lokal di Afrika/Timur Tengah, ga sehrsnya budaya itu diijinkan di 
Indonesia. Tp beda kalo itu adalah ajaran auloh yg nyuruh cewek disunat.

Jadi ini ngebuktikan bhw Islam itu emang agama biadab, dan pemerintah Indonesia 
jg sedang berusaha menjadi negara biadab.


http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/fears-indonesian-female-circumcision-guidelines-could-increase-practice/462996


Fears Indonesian Female Circumcision Guidelines Could Increase Practice
September 02, 2011
West Java. Guidelines on how to perform female genital 
mutilation/cutting issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Health could 
cause an increase in the practice, medical experts and rights groups 
fear.

“This will give doctors a new motivation to circumcise 
[girls] because now they can say the Ministry of Health approves of 
this, and the Indonesian Council of Ulema [MUI] approves of it,” said 
Jurnalis Uddin, a doctor and lecturer at Yarsi University in Jakarta.

Though
 FGM/C was banned in 2006, two of Indonesia’s Muslim organizations, 
including the largest and mostly moderate, Nahdlatul Ulama, ultimately 
condone the practice advising “not to cut too much,” and, as a result, 
many continue to perform the procedure.

By directing health 
professionals not to cut a girl’s genitals but to “scrape the skin 
covering the clitoris, without injuring the clitoris”, the Ministry of 
Health stands by the regulations, passed in June, as a medically safe 
form of FGM/C representing an effort to further regulate the illegal 
practice and protect women.

But recent uproar has questioned this
 reasoning. Others are concerned the guidelines could well be 
misinterpreted as an endorsement of the procedure, combined with an 
enticement for doctors to encourage the practice, Uddin said.

“I 
think that doctors will use these guidelines to make money from 
circumcision,” Uddin said, adding that Indonesia’s poorly regulated 
medical practitioners often viewed medicine as a business.

FGM/C 
is typically done at birth, or before a girl is five years old and in 
the past was often performed by local healers, called dukun, or by birth
 attendants. Traditionally, FGM/C was mostly “symbolic” with a small cut
 on the clitoris, or rubbing the clitoris with tumeric root, making it 
less invasive than other types of FGM/C.

However, Uddin, who 
conducted an Indonesia-wide survey of FGM/C practices in 2009, said he 
had found that when medical practitioners performed the procedure, there
 was a trend toward more extensive cutting of the clitoris.

Public outcry

Dozens of Indonesian groups continue to call for the Ministry to revoke the 
guidelines.

“This
 gives a justification for health practitioners to damage women’s 
bodies,” said Frenia Nababan, spokeswoman for the Indonesian Family 
Planning Association. She added, “We fear it will increase control of 
women’s bodies by the state and religious groups.”

Amnesty 
International, is one of more than 100 signatories to a letter stating 
that the guidelines should be revoked partially on the grounds of 
Indonesia’s child protection laws, as well as the government’s 
commitment to the international Convention on the Elimination of All 
Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), signed by Indonesia in 
1984.

Experts say there has been increasing support for the 
practice from Muslim groups since the downfall of authoritarian leader 
Suharto in 1998, resulting in greater religious and political freedom, 
known as “Reformasi”.

“Before Reformasi [FGM/C] was mostly done 
on an individual basis, but since Reformasi, it has been done in mass 
events,” said Siti Musda Mulia, an academic specializing in Islamic 
studies, who initially conducted research on the process during the 
Suharto era, and has conducted follow-up research since 1998.

Uddin
 found Indonesia-wide FGM/C had not increased dramatically since the 
Suharto era; however in some areas, such as Bandung, West Java, there 
was an increasing tendency to perform it, even among moderate Muslims.

Across
 Indonesia approximately 12 percent of female babies born in hospitals, 
birthing centres or assisted by government midwives have been 
circumcised, a figure that excludes FGM/C procedures done outside such 
facilities, Uddin said.

FGM/C remains a controversial practice, 
with debated origins. Religious experts say it is a foreign cultural 
practice not sanctioned in any of Islam’s religious texts.

Even a
 scratch or small cut on the clitoris is a dangerous procedure to 
perform on infants, say medical practitioners. Long-term consequences 
include bladder and urinary tract infections, as well as cysts and 
infertility.

The Ministry of Health argues it is not 
“legitimizing or legalizing” FGM/C with its standards but only trying to
 make the practice less risky by encouraging trained health 
professionals rather than traditional healers to perform the procedure.

“It
 is feared that community members who want to circumcise female babies 
will therefore go to traditional healers for this procedure, and it will
 increase the number of [medical] complications. If this procedure is 
done by health professionals, then it has to be done in accordance with 
the ministerial instruction 1636, and this will guarantee the protection
 of the female reproductive system,” the Ministry stated in response to 
national criticism.

IRIN


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