Women in Combat Positions in Military Should be Allowed

In my opinion, women should be allowed to fulfill combat positions in military in the world, including in Indonesia. I mean all positions in the military. If the women are capable, why not? Let us see what opponents say.

First, the opponents of allowing women in combat positions argue that it is too dangerous to women to be prisoners of wars. They say that there is much greater probability for acts of sexual molestation and rape. Thus, women will be subjected to the horrors of combat. However, I, and many more people argue that adult women who have decided to join the military is aware of the consequences. I mean, the women have thought and predicted the cosequences before making the decision to be in dangerous military atmosphere.

Second, they opponents argue that women do not have physycal strength and endurance. They say that being in the military is physically demanding job that not everyone is fit to handle and surely I agree. Despite thus, all experts agree that there are some women, although in small number, have the physical strength and endurance to be soldiers. I believe those such women are same with male soldiers, or perhaps more.

Third, the opponents say that men are not able to trust women to be capable to do their phisycal duties. Surely, that condition can lead to a serious problem. But I think, it will not happen to women who have physical strength and endurance to be soldiers, as I wrote above. I also think that the problem is truly in side of men. The men have to trust that such women to keep their spirit and solidarity working.

The last, the opponents argue that women life will be full of romantic relationships. They also argue that pregnancy will hurt their readiness to commit the duties. However, the statistics show pregnancy has little bearing on military readiness. In fact, women on the average spend a mere one fewer hour per month at work then their male counterparts. Women also have a lower rate of lost time at work than their male counterparts.

Thus again, women should be allowed in combat positions in military.If our country, Indonesia want to be the most capable and most powerful military power like the U.S, we need to have the best person in each job, regardless of their genders.

Good.