"I regret that part of it. For that, I am sorry. For my parents who I love very
much and for them alone, I have made another personal decision to not pursue
that line of work anymore. Being on the cover of Playboy can be considered peak
of any model's career. As they say, 'Been there done that.'
"However, I was aware of one thing; I appeared in a country that does not
consider Playboy and nudity as taboo. My appearance was never intended for
consumption of Indonesia. How many Indonesians do you now read Playboy Spain?
My pictures circulating on the internet happened without my being consulted. I
do not have rights to those pictures. Not offending my countrymen was one of
the criteria of my decision making process in appearing in Playboy Spain."
As Asian Sirens notes, it may have been a little naive of Tiara to thinking
that in today's information age that the photos wouldn't circle the globe
faster than New York minute, but maybe she under estimated just how popular she
would become.
Tiara's experiences from an individual perspective and the current debate in
Indonesia over the release of Playboy magazine's local edition highlight the
competing views on morality and sexuality in Indonesia's conservative Islamic
society.
Copyright 2006, Asian Sex Gazette.
