It’s a usual thing that every year
Indonesia sends a representative to compete in beauty pageant like Miss
Universe. It’s a pride that Indonesia can participate in world contest.
Indonesia can also promote its culture through it. However, joining beauty pageant
like this is a wasteful thing for Indonesia.
Firstly,
there is much money spent for that such as for the preparation, the
registration fee, and the accommodation in the country held the contest, etc.
The preparation of course is not in a short time. There must be some trainers
for the talent show, modelling, knowledge, and other preparations. Those all
trainers need a lot of money as the fee. Then, the participant is selected
through the national beauty pageant such as Miss Indonesia. Again, it needs a
lot of money to accommodate the participants. Let’s say one participant from
each province so the organizer has to accommodate 33 participants for several
weeks. Then, the organizer has to pay for the registration fee to this world
contest; it costs not even hundred rupiahs but million rupiahs. What about the
fee for the flight to other country held the contest which can be far from
Indonesia? Then after arriving at the country, is it needed to pay the
accommodation there? Yes, absolutely and money is needed again. Unfortunately,
the chance for Indonesia to be the winner is small. To be the best among
hundred countries in the world is very hard. Shockingly, the fact is that
Indonesia has never won this kind of beauty pageant since the first time it
joined the contest around in 1995. It means that a lot of money which has been wasted
may be not paid.
After
that, it can undermine the feminism side of women especially the participants.
In this world contest, there are three things which participants must have.
They are beauty, brain and behaviour. In proving the brain and behaviour, it
might be not really difficult for Indonesia’s representative. However, the
beauty must be proved by showing almost the whole part of the body to prove
that it is perfect with its proportional height and weight. It can be quite
easy but this might create a stereotype for women around the world in which the
only parameter of being beautiful is by having this kind of body shape.
However, it cannot be eternally true. There will be a protest coming from women
with their own shapes of body that are not the same as the criteria in the
beauty pageant. Women have their “beautiful” right toward their own body as
what is campaigned about the feminism. Whatever the shape of the body, women need
to adore it. So, why should Indonesia join a contest in which it only takes the
side of those who have “perfect” body according to them? It is clear that the
contest which is aimed to dig the potential of women cannot actually achieve
its aim well.
Some
people believe that the purpose of Indonesia to join the contest is to promote
its culture. However, how significant the result will be? In the contest, although
the audience is only for the people in charge, it is also put in media such as
television. People can access the show but it cannot guarantee that those
people will come to Indonesia after watching it. If the promotion which is only
shown in few minutes by Indonesia’s representative can achieve its goal, there
should be an increase of tourists coming to Indonesia. Unfortunately, it is not
as what Indonesians wish. It is hard to measure it. It cannot be guaranteed
that the increasing number of tourists coming to Indonesia is because of the
beauty pageant. There are some other aspects which influence it. It shows that the
bright purpose of joining the contest cannot run well. There is no significant
benefit can be got although much time and money have been spent for it.
Therefore, sending Indonesia’s representative to beauty pageant like Miss
Universe will be useless.
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