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An Indonesian policeman directs traffic - Source: Reuters
Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia's Papua if you have had your penis enlarged.
You won't get it, according to local media reports citing the
Papua police chief.
An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been
enlarged," said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto, quoted on local
website Kompas.com.
"If he has, he will be considered unfit to join the police or the
military."
The ban was applied since the unnatural size causes "hindrance
during training", said police spokesman Zainuri Lubis in Jakarta,
quoted by news portal Detik.com.
Indonesia's remote easternmost province is home to Papuan tribes,
many of whom are known for wearing penis gourds.
A low-level separatist insurgency has waged in the resources-rich
part of Indonesia for decades and there is a heavy police and
military presence there.
Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according
to a sexologist quoted by local newspaper Jakarta Globe, wrapping
the penis with leaves from the "gatal-gatal" (itchy) tree so that
it swells up "like it has been stung by a bee," the expert
said.
