JAKARTA: A rights commissioner in Indonesia on Thursday joined the chorus of opposition to hosting the Miss World contest, saying the country should protect youth from being “poisoned” by foreign influences.
The United Kingdom-based organizers of the beauty pageant have faced opposition from Islamic hardline groups and clerics in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation, even after they agreed to scrap bikinis in the beachwear round and use traditional sarongs.
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