Indonesia Bans Doctors & Nurses From Female Genital Cutting – FGM
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: September 25, 2006
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By Achmad Sukarsono JAKARTA (Reuters) – Doctors and nurses in Indonesia, the world’s most Some Indonesian communities encourage parents to cut parts of a newborn Sri Hermiyanti, who heads the ministry’s family health directorate, “Hurting, damaging, incising, cutting the clitoris are not allowed. “If they only cleanse the organ, that is alright. However, in Most Muslim communities in Indonesia believe male and female According to the World Health Organization, two million girls worldwide The WHO says a wide variety of reasons are cited for the practice, Hermiyanti added there was no punishment for those who still carry out She added FGM practices in Indonesia were far less damaging than the MUI, Indonesia’s umbrella group for Muslim clerics, has not yet given “I think we cannot completely ban it,” Koran Tempo newspaper quoted MUI About 85 percent of Indonesia’s 220 million population are Muslims with
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