Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Indonesia to host Miss World final amid Muslim anger

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Indonesia to host Miss World final amid Muslim anger

Google – AFP, Gde Putra Wicaksana (AFP), 26 Sep 2013

Miss World 2013 contestants clap during a fashion show on the catwalk

in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on September 24, 2013

(AFP, Sonny Tumbelaka)

Nusa Dua — The Miss World final takes place on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday after weeks of protests from Muslim hardliners and warnings that extremists could attack the pageant.

Police and Balinese security personnel, wearing traditional sarongs and armed with daggers, will be out in force on the Hindu-majority island as the beauty queens take to the stage.

A total of 129 contestants will parade in the glittering finale of the three-week event, which will be broadcast to more than 180 countries.

But protests by Islamic radicals in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, have overshadowed the contest and prompted authorities to order the whole event be moved to Bali, where hardliners have little influence.

Miss World competitors take part in

'beauty with a purpose day' in Nusa

Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali

on September 23, 2013 (AFP, Sonny

Tumbelaka)

Radical anger has not been appeased, however. The hardliners are threatening to stage fresh protests on Saturday and even to try to break through heavy security to get into Bali to demonstrate at the venue.

"We are going to protest against it, because it is unacceptable," said Haidar Al-Hamid, head of the East Java province branch of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).

The province sits just across the water from Bali, and he said that the group planned to head to the island on Saturday, although they will face a tough time as main entry points will be heavily guarded.

Hundreds of FPI members have already made one attempt to cross to Bali from East Java earlier this month -- but the group was stopped from getting onto a ferry by a line of female police backed by hundreds of elite officers.

Adding to concerns, the American, British and Australian embassies have said that radicals could attack the pageant, a chilling warning on an island where bombings in 2002 killed more than 200 people, most of them foreign tourists.

"Extremist groups may be planning to disrupt the Miss World pageant... potentially through violent means," said the US embassy in Jakarta.

Miss China Wei Wei Yu walks on the

catwalk during the Miss World contest

final in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's

resort island of Bali on September 24,

2013 (AFP, Sonny Tumbelaka)

Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, corporate secretary of TV network RCTI, which is broadcasting Miss World and helping to organise it, said security was the "main concern".

"We are confident that the police will do everything necessary to ensure safety," he said.

From Indonesian capital Jakarta to cities on Sumatra island and Borneo, thousands have joined protests across the Indonesian archipelago, denouncing Miss World as "pornography" and a "whore contest" and burning effigies of the organisers.

Despite a pledge by the British-based organisers to axe the famed bikini round even before the pageant began, the protest movement snowballed, pushing the authorities into switching the venue.

Organisers always planned to hold the September 8 opening and early rounds on Bali but later rounds and the final were to take place in and around Jakarta, where radicals wield considerable influence.

The decision to change locations was another victory for Indonesia's hardline fringe, who are only a tiny minority but have succeeded in getting events they deem "un-Islamic" cancelled or changed in the past.

Last year, Lady Gaga axed a concert after threats to burn down the venue and criticism for wearing only "a bra and panties".

Miss World 2013 contestants take part

in a fashion show in Nusa Dua on

Indonesia's resort island of Bali on

September 24, 2013 (AFP, Sonny

Tumbelaka)

Authorities are hoping that hosting the event on Bali will present them with less of a security headache, given the island is a pocket of relaxed Hinduism used to hordes of scantily clad foreign tourists.

But they are not taking any chances -- almost 500 police have been deployed to guard venues linked to Miss World since the pageant began and almost 700 will be on duty on Saturday, according to police.

They will be reinforced by traditional Balinese security personnel, known as "pecalang", who work with police but come under the authority of their local villages, according to Bali police spokesman Hariadi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

The late decision for the venue change infuriated MNC media group, the main local organiser and parent company of RCTI, as it meant a new venue on Bali had to be hastily found.

Despite the difficulties, the show has continued as planned, with contestants participating in rounds including a talent show and a "top model" contest.

Saturday's final, in Nusa Dua, southern Bali, will last several hours and will see the contestants parade in Indonesian-designed dresses and feature a series of musical performances.

The finalists will face a question and answer round from a panel of judges before a winner is crowned.