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Indonesia says no to bikinis for 2013 Miss World pageant amid protests, opts for long sarongs



   

Indonesia says no to bikinis for 2013 Miss World pageant amid protests, opts for long sarongs

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Bikinis banned! Miss World Contestants ordered to cover up

June 7, 2013, 10:42 am Penny Newton lifestylechannels
If you’re planning on tuning in to the Miss World Beauty pageant to cop an eyeful of some beauties in bikini’s, then you’re going to be disappointed.
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This year, the Miss World Beauty contestants are being asked to cover up in the swimsuit section, so as not to cause offence to Muslims in Indonesia.

Miss World contestants will no longer be able to wear their skimpy bikinis, which are always a crowd favourite. Photo: Getty Images

According to the Australian Associated Press, organisers confirmed that the 137 women competing in the event, which will be held in Bali this year, will wear more conservative beachwear such modest one pieces, accessorised with traditional sarongs and hats for the beach fashion section.
Talking about the decision, the Miss World Organisation chairwoman Julia Morely said: "I don't want to upset or get anyone in a situation where we are being disrespectful.
"We treasure respect for all the countries that take part in the pageant."
“I did make sure to conform to the rules in Indonesia, which I thought were perfectly reasonable rules,” Ms. Morley said. “I’m working with 137 countries, and all of them have different rules.”
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Organiser and Indonesian media tycoon Hary Tanoesoedibjo told the according to the NY Times. “It has been misunderstood by some people that Miss World is a beauty competition focusing on the physical attractiveness of a woman’s body.”
“This is absolutely misleading,” he said. The pageant is also about “inner beauty, which includes intelligence, manners and achievement.”
Previously, Mukri Aji, a prominent Muslim cleric, told The Associated Press, “that contest is just an excuse to show women’s body parts that should remain covered.”
A few years ago, the Miss World pageant rebranded the swimsuit section, calling it instead a beach fashion show.
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The change in beachwear is also thought to be a result of controversy stirred up by Lady Gaga's skimpy outfits.
The songstress cancelled a show last year when extremists branded her a devil worshipper and threatened to torch the venue if she performed.
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Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, with about 90 percent of its population of 242 million people identifying themselves as Muslim.
The contest will be broadcast live Sept. 28 from the Sentul International Convention Center in Jakarta, according to the pageant website.
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Miss World has axed the famed bikinis from this year's pageant in Indonesia, replacing the skimpy swimsuits with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hard-line Muslim groups, organizers said Thursday.

Photograph by: MARK RALSTON , AFP/Getty Images

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Miss World has axed the famed bikinis from this year's pageant in Indonesia, replacing the skimpy swimsuits with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hard-line Muslim groups, organizers said Thursday.
All of the more than 130 contestants will be required to wear Bali's traditional long sarongs instead of the sexy bikinis that are historically part of the competition, said Adjie S. Soeratmadjie of the RCTI, the official broadcaster and local organizer.
Parts of the pageant will take place on the resort island of Bali and the final round will be held Sept. 28 near the capital, Jakarta. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country.
"There will no bikini in this year's Miss World pageant to respect our traditional customs and values," Soeratmadjie said, adding that the London-based Miss World Organization is on board with the decision.
"This is a sensitive issue in Indonesia. We have discussed it since last year and they have agreed," he said.
The chairwoman of the Miss World Organization, Julia Morley, confirmed that none of the 137 contestants would wear a bikini.
"Indonesia is designing for us a very beautiful one-piece beachwear, and I'm very happy with them," she told The Associated Press by phone from London, adding that the pageant will include a special beachwear fashion show.
"I don't think Indonesia is the only country that has that culture," Morley said. "But we like to work in the manner respectful to every country, and I cannot see why when you go to somebody's country you should not behave respectfully."
The pageant began in the 1950s, and the first winner was crowned in a two-piece bathing suit.
Soeratmadjie said the sarong would be made creatively and designed specifically for the event.
Controversy over the pageant has been mounting in Indonesia, which has a reputation as a tolerant, pluralist society that respects freedom of expression.
Clerics of the Indonesian Council of Ulema, or MUI, said they would send a letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to demand that the beauty pageant be cancelled.
"That contest is just an excuse to show women's body parts that should remain covered," said Mukri Aji, a prominent cleric from West Java province's MUI branch. "It's against Islamic teachings."
Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, a hardline Islamic group, said it planned to stage a protest and called for the competition to be moved elsewhere.
Most Muslims in Indonesia, a secular country of 240 million people, are moderate, but a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.
They have pushed through controversial laws — including an anti-pornography bill — and have been known to attack anything perceived as blasphemous, from transvestites and bars to "deviant" religious sects.
Lady Gaga was forced to cancel her sold-out concert in Indonesia in May following threats by Islamic hard-liners, who called her a "devil worshipper." Jennifer Lopez toned down her sexy outfits and dance moves during a show in Jakarta last December.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia — In a move sure to delight anyone who watches beauty pageants not for the swimsuit competition, but for the parts where contestants play instruments and talk about world hunger, the billionaire organizer of the Miss World pageant declared Thursday that there would be no bikinis this year.



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Beach attire on popular Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday. Instead of showing off their figures in two-piece suits, Miss World contestants will be swathed in more modest one-pieces.
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“It has been misunderstood by some people that Miss World is a beauty competition focusing on the physical attractiveness of a woman’s body,” the organizer, Hary Tanoesoedibjo, an Indonesian media tycoon, said.
“This is absolutely misleading,” Mr. Tanoesoedibjo said, adding that the pageant is also about “inner beauty, which includes intelligence, manners and achievement.”
Bathing suits will not be eradicated completely from the contest, a multiweek extravaganza that is to begin Sept. 4 and culminate Sept. 28, when the finals in Jakarta are broadcast around the world.
But instead of showing off their figures in racy, skin-flaunting two-piece suits, the contestants will be swathed in more modest one-pieces, accessorized with beachwear like wraps and hats.
Several years ago, the Miss World pageant rebranded the traditional bathing suit contest, calling it a “beach fashion show” in which contestants would wear suits created by local fashion designers. In keeping with this year’s demure sensibility, Indonesia’s beach fashion show will not be televised live, but taped in front of a small audience limited to judges, organizers and guests.
Nana Putra, project director for programming and production at MNC, the media conglomerate that is organizing the competition, declined to say whether specific rules dictate what portions of, or how much, skin can be exposed. The bottom line, she said, is that “we will not have any bikinis, either taped or live.”
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, with about 90 percent of its population of 242 million people identifying themselves as Muslim. But it has a secular government constitution, and prominent minority populations that include Christians, Balinese Hindus and Buddhists.
The announcement on Thursday seemed intended in part to mollify a small but vocal group of religious conservatives who regularly stage street protests in Jakarta on issues they feel strongly about, like American foreign policy, Israel and Lady Gaga, whom some have called a devil worshiper. Lady Gaga was to have performed here last year, but ended up canceling because of security concerns.
In recent weeks, this group has turned its attention to the impending Miss World pageant.
“That contest is just an excuse to show women’s body parts that should remain covered,” Mukri Aji, a prominent Muslim cleric, told The Associated Press.
In an interview, Ms. Putra said it was wrong to focus on the bathing suit question, since so much else was going on in the pageant. “The beach fashion show is just a very small part of the competition, actually,” she said.
Julia Morley, chairwoman and chief executive of Miss World in London, said there had been other years when contestants wore one-piece suits. And, she said, no one in Indonesia has specifically banned anything, per se.
“I did make sure to conform to the rules in Indonesia, which I thought were perfectly reasonable rules,” Ms. Morley said. “I’m working with 137 countries, and all of them have different rules.”
Mr. Tanoesoedibjo said he was working hard to persuade skeptics that the pageant truly is more about minds and spirits than about bodies.
“We are now trying to explain what a Miss World pageant is all about,” he said.
Joe Cochrane reported from Jakarta, and Sarah Lyall from London.

 

 

 

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A STAR IS BORN: Katherine Webb, beauty queen and the girlfriend of Alabama's quarterback, was thrust into the spotlight as announcer Brent Musburger repeatedly praised her beauty during the BCS title game.



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Miss Alabama USA 2012 Katherine Webb, an Auburn grad, is dating Alabama QB AJ McCarron 

Published: December 28, 2012 

AJ McCarron photo via Associated Press. Katherine Webb photo courtesy of Ryan Miles.
Miss Alabama USA 2012 Katherine Webb offered a clarification after confirming she’s dating AJ McCarron, the starting quarterback at the University of Alabama.
“I’m not trying to sabotage Alabama,” Webb said.
Some might consider it a necessary disclaimer, since she’s an Auburn University graduate.
Webb, who was raised in the Columbus-Phenix City area, confirmed the romance on Friday. “Yes, we are in a relationship,” she said in a phone interview with the Ledger-Enquirer.
Now that their relationship has made national headlines, some football-based questions have surfaced.
Does Webb still love Auburn? Can she honestly cheer for McCarron and his Alabama teammates?
With the intense rivalry between the two schools, are Auburn-Alabama romances ever OK?
Webb’s answers: yes, yes and yes.
"Honestly, it's just a game," she said of the football rivalry.
She plans to travel to Florida to watch Alabama compete against Notre Dame in the upcoming BCS national championship game. Webb said her time as Miss Alabama taught her how to put some allegiances in perspective.
“When you’re a representative of the whole state, you have to kind of bypass your own feelings and love everyone,” she said.
Not everyone’s a fan of that approach.
“I think I’ve had a little bit of backlash from my own alma mater,” said Webb, 23. “Of course I’ll always love Auburn.”
Webb, who advanced to the top 10 in the Miss USA 2012 pageant, said she first met McCarron in person when he attended this year’s Miss Alabama USA pageant, which was held Dec. 7-8 in Montgomery.
Prior to that meeting, they knew of each other due to a series of Twitter exchanges.
“I had not seen him (in person) until I went on stage and saw him in the front row,” Webb said. Since she lives in Los Angeles, Webb said she initially wasn’t too familiar with McCarron’s achievements on the football field.
After the pageant, their relationship progressed.
“We decided to make it official this past weekend,” said Webb, who is home for the holidays visiting family in Alabama.
Even though they’ve already been called the “Romeo and Juliet of Alabama,” Webb said their connection is deeper than trophies or tiaras.
“It has nothing to do with the status,” said Webb, explaining why she’s attracted to McCarron. “He has such an amazing heart. He realizes that family and friends and the people closest to you are most important.”


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