Die UN hat jetzt echt schon herausgefunden, dass FGM nicht nur ein afrikanisches Problem ist. Die sind ja von der ganz schnellen Sorte.
“We knew the practice existed but we didn’t have a sense of the scope,” said Claudia Cappa, a statistics specialist for Unicef, which released the report. She said the new data from Indonesia showed that cutting was not just “an African problem.”
Ms. Cappa said it was possible that there were some more severe cases in Indonesia, but she said the official Indonesian government definition of female circumcision was “an act of scratching the skin that covers the front of clitoris without injuring the clitoris.”
The practice is “regarded as part of our culture, or a confirmation that they will be officially ‘Islamized,’ ” Jurnalis Uddin, the chairman of the Center for Population and Gender Studies at Yarsi University in Jakarta, said in an email, adding that the practice “in Indonesia is mostly symbolic (no cutting at all).”
“Even today, I believe in circumcision and support it,” she said, sitting on the floor of her Jakarta salon, where she also makes and sells ceremonial dresses for young girls’ circumcisions. “If we don’t, then we can’t be whole as women and we can’t marry.
nytimes.com/2016/02/05/health/…umcision-unicef.html?_r=0In Jakarta, Fitri Yanti, a pregnant 30-year-old mother of two, said she did not understand what all the fuss was about. She said she was not mutilated during her circumcision, didn’t bleed at all and felt nearly no pain during or after the procedure. “Mutilation is horrible, but it’s not true that it happens here” in Indonesia, Ms. Fitri said. “They cannot stop us. It’s our tradition.”