Indonesian minister calls for Miss World to be cancelled

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s religious affairs minister has called for the Miss World beauty pageant to be cancelled, as opposition in the Muslim-majority country mounts the week before the contest opens in Bali.

Suryadharma Ali said that the organizers should follow the advice of the nation’s top Islamic clerical body, which last week called for the contest to be scrapped even after organizers agreed to axe the bikini round.