INDONESIA: THE MISS INDONESIA BEAUTY PAGEANT WELCOMES ITS FIRST EVER MUSLIM ENTRANT IN TRADITONAL ' JILBAB' HEADSCARF

Record ID: 521322

  • Title: INDONESIA: THE MISS INDONESIA BEAUTY PAGEANT WELCOMES ITS FIRST EVER MUSLIM ENTRANT IN TRADITONAL ' JILBAB' HEADSCARF
  • Date: 6th August 2004
  • Summary: (W3) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (AUGUST 6, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF CEREMONY 0.01 2. VARIOUS MISS ACEH, ANDINA AGUSTINA, AND OTHER CONTESTANTS APPEARING ON STAGE (3 SHOTS) 0.37 3. SCU: WOMAN WATCHING IN THE AUDIENCE 0.40 4. TRACL/MLV: MORE OF CONTESTANTS ON STAGE 0.50 5. TILT UP/MLV: AGUSTINA AND ANOTHER CONTESTANT STANDING IN EVENING GOWNS 1.00 6. GV: AUDIENCE WATCHING 1.03 7. WS/ZOOM IN/LV: OF 36 CONTESTANTS IN THE STAGE THEN AGUSTINA AS SHE IS NAMED AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 FINALISTS 1.27 8. MLV: AGUSTINA AND OTHER CONTESTANTS CLAPPING 1.34 9. WS/LV: TOP 10 FINALISTS ON STAGE 1.39 10. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) ANDINA AGUSTINA SAYING: "Thank God. I am very proud to the first contestant wearing a Muslim head scarf in this contest." 1.45 11. WS: AGUSTINA BEING QUESTIONED ON THE STAGE BY HOST 1.50 12. GV: PHOTOGRAPHERS AT CEREMONY 1.53 13. WS: OF ALL CONTESTANTS ON STAGE 1.57 14. MLV/TRACK: AGUSTINA NAMED AS "VIEWERS' FAVOURITE", GIVEN A SASH 2.16 15. WS/LV: OF CONTESTANTS 2.18 16. MLV: MISS BANTEN AND MISS BANGKA BELITUNG HOLDING HANDS 2.21 17. LV: MISS BANGKA BELITUNG ARTIKA SARI DEVI CROWNED BY THE OUTGOING MISS INDONESIA DIAN KRISHNA 2.28 18. MV: MISS INDONESIA ARTIKA SARI DEVI WAVING 2.31 19. VARIOUS: OF MISS INDONESIA STANDING ON STAGE ALONG WITH MISS UNIVERSE 2004 JENNIFER HAWKINS AND MISS EGYPT HEBA EL-SISY (3 SHOTS) 2.43 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st August 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JAKARTA,INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA80JPUL7LNRNL5KLF56QHD0L3X
  • Story Text: Miss Indonesia pageant welcomes first-ever finalist
    wearing a Muslim headscarf.





    An 18-year-old student from Indonesia's staunchly
    Islamic province of Aceh on Friday (August 6) became the
    country's first Miss Indonesia finalist wearing the
    traditional 'jilbab' Muslim headscarf.

    Andina Agustina's breakthrough appearance at the Miss
    Indonesia 2004 pageant set her apart from other contestants
    from more than 30 provinces across Indonesia.

    Representing Aceh province, site of a simmering
    separatist rebellion and the only province in Indonesia
    that implements the Islamic Sharia law, Agustina said she
    was proud to be the first Miss Indonesia finalist with a
    jilbab.

    "I am very proud to the first contestant wearing a
    Muslim head scarf in this contest," Agustina told the
    audience during the final on Friday (August 6), which was
    broadcast live on television.

    Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country,
    but most of its people have long followed a moderate
    version of Islam.

    The western province of Aceh, however, is much stricter
    and its local government imposes Islamic Sharia law in
    which women are required to wear a jilbab.

    Despite failing to secure the top spot, Agustina
    managed to be among the top ten and even won the 'Viewers'
    Favourite' title, whose winner was voted by viewers at home
    through mobile phone text messages.

    Other winning categories at the ceremony include "Miss
    Congeniality", "Most Talented" and "Best Traditional Dress".

    Judges of the Miss Indonesia pageant had been advised
    to adjust their assessment of Agustina with regards to
    certain categories.

    Points on hair style, for example, would be replaced by Agustina's
    skill in co-ordinating her headscarf with her over-all appearance.

    The 2004 contest marks the ninth time Miss Indonesia
    pageant was held. Unlike other beauty contests, Miss
    Indonesia does not allow its contestants to participate in
    a swimsuit parade.

    Artika Sari Devi, 24, a post-graduate student from
    Bangka Belitung province was crowned as Miss Indonesia in
    the final, defeating 35 other contestants.

    The event was also attended by Miss Universe 2004,
    Jennifer Hawkins of Australia, as well as Miss Egypt Heba
    El-Sisy.

    Protests from religious organisations -- specifically
    about the swimsuit parade -- have prevented Indonesia from
    sending its representative to participate in
    internationally-held beauty contests, such as the Miss
    Universe pageant.

    A local foundation managed, however, managed to send
    unofficial Indonesian representatives to the Miss Universe
    contests in 1983 and 1984, but stronger protests and a
    bigger public outcry soon stopped it.

    The Putri Indonesia Foundation, an organisation set up
    in 1992 and current organiser of Miss Indonesia, was able
    to send the winner of Miss Indonesia in 1996 to participate
    at the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas.

    The foundation, however, stated then that she was there
    only as an "active observer".





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