"I have made a personal decision as a model to also follow that route last
year. This decision certainly wasn't popular in my own country. Heck, it was a
huge disappointment for my parents too.
"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."
To this, bloggers on Asian Sirens stated that "Tiara as a 'cosmopolitan woman
of the world', [should] have known that appearing in Playboy Spain (and
Penthouse Holland) would mean that these images could find their way to
Indonesia. This is the information age. Everything we say or do is captured
somewhere on the web. Once a photo is out there, someone will scan it or rip it
of a site and it will never go away and travel the world in a split second. You
must have realised this?"
Copyright 2006 Asia Sex Gazette and
Asian Sirens
