The Miss Universe Organization severs ties with its Indonesian franchise after contestants say they were forced to strip to their underwear during the pageant this month.
Miss Universe Organization has suspended the Miss USA president and her firm and launched an investigation into whether the 2022 pageant was rigged.In a post on the franchisee’s Instagram account, Capella on Saturday denied she had any knowledge of or was in any way involved in any “body checking” of the contestants. She also said that she was against every form of “violence and sexual harassment.
In its statement, the Miss Universe Organization said no measurements of height, weight or body dimensions are required to join the pageant, and thanked the Indonesian contestants who have shown “bravery in speaking out.” Since the “body checks” news broke, controversy over the pageant has been mounting in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. The country has a reputation as a tolerant, pluralist society that respects freedom of expression.
Most Muslims in Indonesia, a secular country of 277 million people, are moderate, but a small hard-line fringe has become more vocal in recent years. In 2013, several conservative Muslim groups staged a massive protest against the Miss World competition in Indonesia, prompting the organizers to move the contest from Jakarta to the resort island of Bali. All of the more than 130 contestants were required to wear Bali’s traditional long sarongs instead of the bikinis that have historically been a symbol of the competition.
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