Police ban men with enlarged genitals

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 the Papua police chief.

An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged," said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto said. "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. Indonesia's remote easternmost province is home to Papuan tribes, many of whom are known for wearing penis gourds.

Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according to a sexologist, 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.