Writing Project: Discussion Text

Should the Event of Miss World be Held in Indonesia?

Miss World, which is the largest and the oldest beauty event in the world, will host the 64^th contest in Indonesia for the first time on September 3^rd to 28^th 2013. The three provinces will witness this grand event there are Bali (Opening ceremony and fast track events), Jakarta (quarantine) and West Java (Live events and Closing-coronation ceremony). Indonesia as a country with a large variety of natural beauty and culture certainly was interested in organizing this event, but soon turns pros and cons accompany the journey towards the implementation of this contest.

As a country that has many traditions and holding the strong cultures, the event like Miss World will give a bad image for Indonesia. The controversy comes from some the council of Islam organizations. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), for instance, has conveyed its disagreement with the event by saying that the pageant was not in line with Islamic teachings. Radical groups the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and the Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) have also demanded the government to cancel this event. As a Muslim-majority country, an event like Miss World is against Islamic and Indonesian culture because of damaging women’s dignity by exploiting their bodies, said Abdul Rahman, who is one of the coordinator of HTI. In addition, Miss World pageant is like an event that shows the beauty of bodies up on the big stage. This is not appropriate with the culture of Indonesia, which has the ideology that upholds women and it is contrary to the norms of politeness that people have appreciated in Asia, especially in Indonesia. Similarly, all contestants of this event must wear a bikini on the stage and will be seen by a hundred trillion people around the world, because this event will be on air in all of the television in the world. In this case, it seems like the government supports pornography.

On the other hand, in spite of all the controversy that comes, Miss World contest has great contributed to the progress of the development of Indonesia. First, as an event that is followed by many countries in the world, of course, this event can introduce all of the things about Indonesia to all around the world such as cultures, languages, unique biological and social nature. In addition, the Miss World pageant 2013 in Indonesia will also be on air the International media. As a result, more than 140 countries will broadcast the contest on their television screens and an estimated 3 billion people of the world will watch the contest live on television. It means the supporter of participants in each country are present to witness in Indonesia will give a positive impact on various sectors such as economics, business hotel -lodging, travel agents, culinary, tourism, fashion, and industrial creative as a souvenir -Indonesian souvenirs. This course will provide income-effect for Indonesia.

In conclusion, as Indonesian people whose well known suave, smiling and rich in culture, especially as the religious people who do not teach violence to intimidate, so that we must be wise to receive this event. Therefore, as the citizen who has the insight and positive thinking, let us take the positive lessons from this contest. Regardless of all the controversies norms, I think, this contest is only an event of the acting on the stage that provides many advantages to survival of a nation.

References

Team editor the Jakarta globe. 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Emilleilmansyah. 2013. pro-kontra miss world 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Team editor of the Jakarta Post/Asia News Network. 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia

Articles of Muslim clerics against miss world 2013. 2013: Jakarta, Indonesia