Miss Grand 2025: Indonesia "withdraws", the relationship with Mr. Nawat has problems?

The 2024 season has ended, but the scandal is still coming to Miss Grand International. Accordingly, a 5th unit officially announced that it would stop cooperating with Mr. Nawat's contest.

On December 2, Mr. Ivan Gunawan - Chairman of Miss Grand Indonesia - announced on his personal page that he would not send a representative to attend Miss International Peace 2025.

"As the founder and national director of several international beauty pageants, I would like to announce that no Miss Mega Bintang Indonesia pageant will be held in 2025 and we will no longer hold any license to host any international beauty pageants until further notice," Ivan declared.

Mega Bintang Indonesia is a contest founded and organized by Mr. Ivan Gunawan, to find representatives to attend the Miss Grand International arena every year.

Sharing the reason behind this decision, he said: "This decision was made after careful consideration, without any external pressure. In the future, we will shift our focus to other areas."

Indonesia is an Asian country with impressive achievements in Miss Peace over the years. Reigning Miss Peace Indonesia 2024 Nova Liana won the 4th runner-up position at Miss International Peace 2024 held in Thailand.

Previously, the beauty Ritassya Wellgreat won the 5th runner-up at Miss International Peace 2023 held in Vietnam. In 2022, the beauty Andina Julie won 2nd runner-up at Miss International Peace held in her hometown of Indonesia.

The news that Indonesia did not send a representative to contest Miss International Peace 2025 caused a stir in beauty forums. Many viewers think that the relationship between Mr. Ivan and Mr. Nawat - Chairman of Miss Grand International - has malfunctioned.

"The relationship between the two presidents has malfunctioned", "If Indonesia cancels the Miss Peace contest, it is a pity because they always send strong contestants", "With Nawat's way of working, there will be many other countries that give up the copyright"... are the comments of the audience.

It is known that previously, the president of Miss Grand Indonesia was extremely close to the chairman of Nawat - the founder of Miss Grand International. However, many people speculated that Mr. Ivan and Nawat had a conflict during the cooperation, causing this person to make the decision not to send Indonesian representatives to the Miss Grand arena.

Ivan Gunawan is an Indonesian designer and entertainer who has been appointed as the national director of Miss Grand Indonesia since 2020. Under Ivan, the Indonesian sash continuously made good achievements at the Miss Grand International playground with 3rd runner-up (2020), Top 10 (2021), 2nd runner-up (2022), 5th runner-up (2023). However, until now, no Indonesian representative has been crowned Miss International Peace, since Ariska Putri Pertiwi's victory in 2016.

Mr. Ivan Gunawan's move took place after this chairman announced that he would hold an international beauty contest called Miss Mega World. Many viewers think that Mr. Ivan did not send a representative to the Miss International Peace 2025 contest to focus on the new contest he founded.

Against Indonesia, Miss Grand Honduras also announced that it would stop cooperating with Mr. Nawat's pageant. Not only that, Ms. Amelia Vega - former national director of Miss Grand Honduras also bluntly said that she felt disappointed with the behavior of Miss Grand International.

"For personal reasons, I would like to withdraw from the Miss International Peace (MGI) organization. I am extremely disappointed with the way this organization treats us as a country director," said Amelia Vega.

What is even more surprising is the fact that Ms. Amelia Vega accused Miss Grand International of only paying attention to money issues, not valuing the efforts and investment of the former national director of Miss Grand Honduras.

Not only on the side of Miss Grand Honduras, Mr. Nawat in recent months has also been "involved" in many other fights with Miss Grand Cambodia, Miss Grand Myanmar. The most attention-grabbing is the stop of cooperation and prosecution with Miss Grand India after the beauty Rachel Gupta was crowned the highest position in the 2024 season.

According to Mr. Nawat, Miss Grand India has continuously delayed royalty payments, violated contracts, lacked support and promoted the Miss Grand International brand.

Mr.Nawat đáp trả vụ Indonesia 'cạch mặt' Miss Grand, tiết lộ chuyện không ngờ Nguyễn Kim13:51:51 06/12/2024Sau tin đồn cạch mặt vì Chủ tịch Miss Grand Indonesia tuyên bố không cử đại diện dự thi Miss Grand International 2025, mới đây, Mr.Nawat đã chính thức lên tiếng giải đáp rõ về vấn đề ồn ào này.