Aceh City Tells 11-Year-Old Schoolchildren to Assess Genital Size??

The Jakarta Globe, September 4, 2013


Banda Aceh. Parents in Aceh were demanding answers from education officials on Wednesday after it emerged that children as young as 11 were told to fill in a survey that included questions about the size of their genitals and whether they had experienced any sexual dreams.

“Actually there was no problem with the questionnaire, but I was very shocked when I opened page five and saw images of women’s breasts and female and male genitalia,” Nurlina, a parent of a student at Sabang 1 State Junior High School, told the Jakarta Globe on Wednesday.

Nurlina said that the page in question included pictures of male and female genitals of varying size and asked the student to circle whichever they felt was the closest approximation to their own.

In addition, boys were asked whether they had experienced a “wet dream,” and girls were asked to assess the size of their breasts. Children as young as 11 were told to complete the survey.

The head of the Sabang Education Agency confirmed that the questionnaire had been distributed to six junior high schools in Sabang, Indonesia’s westernmost city with a population of around 30,000. The legal framework of the semi-autonomous Indonesian province of Aceh includes elements of Shariah law.

Misman said the local education body had included the questions on the recommendation of local health officials.

“It was a recommendation from Puskesmas [community health center] to collect information on the children’s health,” he said.

Nurlina was not persuaded by the view that the authorities’ efforts to document the health of Sabang’s children necessitated asking the kinds of questions with the attendant visual aids found in the survey .

“There were also questions as to whether or not the girls have menstruated and if the boys have experienced sexual dreams,” she said. “Those questions were meant for children who have just graduated from elementary school — that’s improper.”

Nurlina, a civil servant in Sabang, prohibited her child from answering those questions and said she would file a complaint to the school and the local education office.

“The teachers should have checked the questionnaires before they were distributed to see if the pages came with indecent images,” she said.

Misman said the schools distributed similar questionnaires last year but there was no public outcry because the questions were not accompanied by a set of pictures.

“[The surveys] have been distributed and some of them have been returned because children did not want to answer that particular page,” he said. “After I saw the questionnaires I can see not only that they asked about their genital sizes, but that there were some very vivid images of genitals — this is too vulgar.”

Misman said his office would discuss the issue with Sabang’s mayor to find the best solution.



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The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Saurday, September 07 2013


The Health Ministry is supporting the move by local administrations — including Sabang city in Aceh — to make it a requirement for high school students to record the shape and size of their genitalia for its health status reports.

“The measurement requirement is part of the national school-health improvement program regulated by the Health Ministry in 2010,” the Ministry’s director of child health, Jane Supandi, told The Jakarta Post on Friday.

Jane added that under that program, the government, represented by the Health Ministry, planned to educate students about reproductive health and their rights.

The government hopes, through the collection of information on the shape and size of students’ genitalia, the scheme would assist in the detection of abnormalities at an early stage, she said.

“However, we have a very limited number of health workers able to examine students one at a time. So, to solve this problem, we are asking students to check their own bodies and write the results on health report forms,” she said.

Jane said that students who measured their own bodies would get information about their right to sexual and reproductive health.

“The measurement results are confidential. Only health workers from the health agency are allowed to read the reports,” she said.

If health workers found any reproductive health abnormalities, they would inform the schools and parents directly to consult on how to tackle the matter, Jane explained.

She questioned the public’s criticism of how the reports contained graphics of human genitalia.

“It’s scientific and can help children learn about their reproductive health and avoid diseases,” she said.

Seto Mulyadi, a psychologist who is currently the head of the National Commission on Child Protection’s (Komnas Anak) supervisory board, said that genitalia measurement violated children’s privacy.

“I don’t think measuring students’ genitalia in a school environment is appropriate even though it aims to improve students’ awareness of their sexual and reproductive health and rights,” he added.

Seto said it could trigger sexual harassment including molestation, rape and pregnancy before marriage. “Most children are not able to identify what actions are health checks and what are sexual abuse. That’s why genitalia measurement would be better done in community health centers, not in schools.”

Meanwhile, Badriul Hegar Syarif chairman of the Indonesian Pediatricians Association said that the genitalia measurement had been developed and used by international health centers to know children’s reproductive health status.

“The method, known as Tanner method, consists of checking the size and shape of human genitalia at the early stage,” he said, adding that each country had its own policy on genitalia measurement.

Hegar added that the genitalia measurement on junior high school students as seen in Sabang, Aceh, was appropriate. He said that junior high school students had the capacity to learn about their reproductive and sexual health rights.

“However, the government should watch its implementation carefully. Students need to be assisted by health workers and to have sufficient information on reproductive health,” he said.

Recently, the Aceh Health Agency shocked the public by giving questionnaires to students of state SMP 1 junior high school, which contained pictures and questions regarding the size and shape of genitalia.

One mother, Nurlina, said that the five-page questionnaire contained images depicting breasts, vaginas and penises and under each of the images were four options — from small to large — for a student to circle.



(So what's the story here, the bigger the genitals the more rights? Tjonge.., there is hope for me yet!

siK:oops: )


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aduh, nakal die Om Kesas !
 

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Monday September 09 2013,


The high number of unwanted pregnancies among teenagers is a result of a lack of proper reproductive health education, an activist said on Saturday.

“We cannot blame the teenagers if they are sexually active. Perhaps, they had no information from their homes or schools,” said Dian M. Marviana, senior coordinator of Mitra Citra Remaja teenage program at the Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association (PKBI).

“Unfortunately, reproductive health is not yet included in the curriculum for either elementary or high schools.”

Based on a survey by the National Family Planning Board (BKKBN) in 2008, 57 percent of young residents -- aged 15-24 years old -- in Bandung city had been sexually active. Out of the most sexually active 54 respondents, 59 percent had their first sexual encounter aged between 16 and 18 years old.

Meanwhile, the 2012 Demographics and Health Survey reveals that out of 1,000 female youths, 48 were pregnant or had delivered babies, an increase from 35 out of the same number in 2007. The government wants to reduce the figure to 30.

PKBI national youth representative, Liris Kosasih Judorahardjo said providing reproductive health materials was not the same as teaching youths about pre-marital sex.

“We must provide the youth with proper knowledge on reproductive health,” she said.


( Well I am not so sure about all this, most kids 13 and older nowadays could tell us oldies where Abraham got the mustard from or sambal terasi in this case, and measuring genitals, wondering if it all is going to say ehh.. "fit" is according my opinion not going to stop the young missies getting pregnant) siK.



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I think the young people are curious to try out everything after the measurement? 


Dk

En toen fan froeher... was het toen anders????

Er was eens een GG die er eentje trouwde, ging scheiden of zijn vrouw ging dood (al ferheten), opnieuw trouwde maar nu met eentje van 27 jaar oud... hield het een jaartje vol.... en toen ging hij ergens rujak kopen en zag hij een deerne van 13 ( !!!!) jaar oud en toen..... was ie ineens weer getrouwd met dat meisje van 13 jaar....
Goh, hoe heette ie alweer? Ik dacht zoiets ongeveer als Rijcklof van Goens.

Oh ja, er was ook deze: Jeremias van Riemsdijk... die er ONDER ANDERE ééntje had van 16 en ééntje van 14 !!! Buiten die andere drie nog.

Dan hadden we ook nog Carel Reiniersz, die er eentje had van 14.

En al die gasten maar met het sprookjesboek (geschreven in oud Nederlands nog) in de hand vertellen over die ooievaar die één der dagen wel langs zou vliegen.

Maar gooi die kacungs/bocaks uit de desa's van toen fan froeher ook niet zo maar weg, want die lustten er ook wel bubur van....

Is er iets veranderd dan na al deze eeuwen?

Zie: http://imexbo.nl/gg-s-voc-ned-indie.html

He wazz'up ouwe zoon! "Is er iets veranderd dan na al deze eeuwen?" je vraagt, zou zo denken van wel toch, het meten en vergelijken en passen van de dergelijke gebeurde toch niet in schooltijd maar meer achter de pagar van de oudjes om de hoek op weg (omweg) naar huis! 
Sayo dan maar weer,

siK



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Is dat zo Om K? Achter de pager na schooltijd??

Kan me heugen, dat ik eens de klas werd uitgestuurd, omdat ik achter een lieftallige klasgenote zat en op haar rug aan iets zat te frunneken, waarop de andere meeloerende klasgenoten sensationeel zaten te gniffelen en dat bleef natuurlijk niet ongemerkt.

Enfin, er was toen geen overblijflokaal of zoiets onder toezicht van een vrije leerkracht (hetgeen in de huidige schoolgebouwen vaak wel het geval is) en er restte ons beider helaas niets anders, om dan maar achter de gedek van het fietsenhok te wachten op het volgende lesuur, hetgeen natuurlijk ons niet weerhield om verder met de anatomische lessen door te gaan.

Naderhand hebben we onze anatomische lessen maar niet vervolgd, omdat de strafmaat ons opgelegd wegens het onvoortijdig verlaten van de klas, mij in elk geval de sapu lidi van ma op mijn rug deed voelen en mijn pa toekeek met een grijns op zijn gezicht... (Waarschijnlijk dacht hij op dat moment aan zijn eigen escapades uit zijn jeugd?)

Achter de pager? Volwassenen in Delft doen het gewoon in de gracht.

Omroep West

Allemachies, je moet toch wel in Tanah Kodok zijn om zo iets te zien! Die knaap kan niet veel geven om de vrouw die hij vernedert heeft met dit spectacle, niet eens te praten over 't risico ze nam in dat gecontamineerde water!

siK.



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