On her blog Tiara Lestar is writing about the upcoming launch of Playboy Indonesia and her future career as a ‘nude’ model for that magazine. Let me quote some paragraphs (I suggest you read the whole posting. Quite interesting how she sheds some light on her thoughts about modeling and politics).I respect Playboy as an internationally known publication. Everyone from legendary Marilyn Monroe to Pamela Anderson to Madonna to Cindy Crawford have benefited from their professional relationships with the magazine. 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.

Tiara, as a ‘cosmopolitan woman of the world‘, you could 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?

Personally I think you should be very proud of the pictures by Adam Yurman and the role you are playing in the path to a perhaps more liberal Indonesia. But it sounds to me a bit like you are backing out on the whole thing? Not so long ago you were honoring Asian-Sirens for our role in all this…

Just my two cents 😉