About The Ban On Female Circumcision Of Women
In 2007, the Ministry of Health issued a ban on circumcision (female circumcision) medikalisasi women by health workers. Prohibition was not just in tune with the teachings of Islam, but also modern health rule.
International Conference on population and development of the World Health Organization in Cairo, Egypt, 1994, to ban female circumcision for women. The reason, khitans damaging and injurious to women's reproductive organs.
Banning it got hard response from Indonesia Ulema Council through Decision Fatwa Number 9A in 2008. According to MUI, female circumcision for women is makrumah (honour) and the prohibition of female circumcision for women is considered to be contrary to syiar Islam.
Kemkes responding MUI and issued a Regulation Number 1636 Ternate Diguncang 2010 approve and encourage the implementation of the khitan women. Permenkes is even detailing stage by stage should be done in order to practice circumcision for women is done in the framework of the protection of women; carried out in accordance with the provisions of the religion, the standard of service, as well as the standards of the profession to ensure the security and safety of women are circumcised.
Historically, the practice of female circumcision for women has been in existence prior to Islam was born. Khitan women become a tradition in many societies. Based on the research of Population Council, in Indonesia, khitan women held in various areas, such as Java, Gorontalo, Makassar, Padang Sidimpuan, Madura, Padang, Padang Pariaman, Serang, Kutai Kartanegara, Sumenep, Bone, Gorontalo, Bandung. Tools to circumcise is the blade (55 percent), scissors (24 percent), sembilu (bamboo) or razor blade (5 percent), the needle (1 percent), and the rest were about 15 percent of the tweezers, nail polish or finger penyunat, coins, and turmeric. The trick is to cut the clitoris, i.e. incisions (22 percent) and the excision (72 percent) to use scissors, as well as scraping and scratched the clitoris (6 percent) using bamboo or razor blade.
The practice of female circumcision for women led to many of the victims, mostly due to bleeding. The author Nawal el Sadawi Egypt a lot of writing about the death of the girl child and women as a result of this practice. Research of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 2001 mentions the khitan, the impact of very diverse, such as depression, pain during sexual intercourse, reduce sexual pleasure, urinary tract infection, pelvic inflammatory Chronicles, frigidity, bleeding, and death.
Equal rights
The verses are constantly made reference to the law of circumcision for men and women is QS An-Nahl: 124, â then we wahyukan you to follow the Prophet Ibrahim millah. â according to Husein Muhammad from the cottage KH Pesantren Darut Tauhid, Cirebon, no expert interpretation which associates the verse with khitan obligations for women. Instead, the paragraph discussing things in true religious doctrine, such as about the beliefs of unity and the way the Hajj of Prophet Ibrahim. The expert interpretation of the classic though, such as Al-Qurthubi, explains, the verse with regard to the command to the Prophet Muhammad to join the Hajj of Prophet Ibrahim.
Al-Tabari says, this verse point ordered Muhammad to free themselves from the worship of idols and complete surrender to God. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi argued, referring to paragraph it is the Lord commanded the Prophet to follow method of Prophet Ibrahim in conveying the Da'wah of kemahaesaan God (tawhid), i.e. by way of a smooth, soft, easy, and rational argument, as shown in the Glorious Qur'an in verses another.
According to Yusuf al-Qardhawi, reference paragraph above as the basis for the necessity of female circumcision for women is the reason for making this up (takalluf) and imposing. These verses talk more widespread and fundamental than mere khitan. Further, Qardhawi also argued, when khitan painful physically and psychologically, making women hindered getting the right fitrahnya, action was unlawful.
The question then is, why female circumcision for women is often forced upon society? Michel Foucault mentions, the female body is the object of the power of community patriaki. Through the body of a patriarchal culture perempuanlah play to control and dominate others over his body.
Dikekang female sexuality with khitan when the most important organs in a sexual relationship is removed.
The opportunity should be given to women to articulate his sexuality, just like an opportunity that was given to men because women and men composed of the substance (nafs) is the same (QS An-Nisa: 1). In fact, the relation is equivalent has been mentioned in the QS Al-Baqarah 2: 187, i.e. the wife's clothes for her husband and thus otherwise.
Therefore, since 1959, Egypt banned female circumcision for women. Egypt's mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomâ ah, which gave a fatwa haram khitan for women. Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar, Mohammed Sayyed Thanthowi, as well as supporting the fatwa.
Yulianti Muthmainnah Pengaderan Female Scholars Program participants and researchers Komnas Perempuan Rahima Baldwin, kompas.com
