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In deference to Muslim sensitivities, the Miss World beauty pageant that will be held in Bali and Bogor just outside Jakarta will not require contestants to wear bikinis, organizers said on Wednesday, June 5. The 137 women competing in the September beauty pageant will instead wear the traditional Indonesian sarong for the beach fashion part of the contest. The upcoming pageant has agitated the Indonesian Ulema Council (the top Muslim clerical body in the world’s most populous Muslim nation), which has called for a cancellation of the beauty contest. Organizers of the event are treading carefully as recent music acts held in Indonesia provoked controversy as a result of performers’ outfits. These included Beyonce and the Pussycat Dolls. Lady Gaga was forced to cancel her concert in 2012 after Muslim hardliners threatened to burn down her concert venue.
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