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Indonesian EXO-L Are 'Sexually Harassed' at EXO Concert 27022016


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On 27th February 2016 EXO came to Jakarta, Indonesia for their Exoplanet #2 World Tour titled EXO'luXion. The promotor Mecimapro however getting some serious backlash from EXO-Ls and fans who attend the concert. Many of the fans are raging on Twitter saying they were sexually harassed during the security check. 

The reason for such tight security and body check was based on these rules:

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While some of the rules are weird, the rest are fine just like any other Kpop concert. But, for some reason the security guard did the body check waaayyyyyy too much for "usual" body check. These are fans tweets saying how the security check went & why they consider it to be a "sexual harassment".

 

"Hopefully @mecimapro can be better. i'm still traumatized at @pelopor_guard security while they do body checking groping my 'vital' part"

she then continuing on another tweet saying:

"my v is groped by a female security guard at 7th hall gate, i'm wearing skinny jeans, it'd be visible if i was hiding anything (underneath)"

"i was very shocked, i can't think during the body check, they groped me twice on my v!"

means her vaginal part (pardon my language)

 

another fans tweeted a chat conversation because she's too upset to write the whole thing again on Twitter.

She tweeted "I'm too lazy to type so i captured this. This roughly what happened yesterday. I'm afraid. Traumatized.. My mother is very angry."

and this what she said on the screen-capture chat:

i don't like how they check me to my private area. to me it's a harassment even though it's done by another female

- the front of my bra is pulled so my boobs spilled out of my bra

- and there were many male guards looking (at me)

- plus i'm wearing short skirt. my crotch was groped and pressed

- i was mad, struggling and crying. i was shaking. i was never treated with such obscene by anyone. while i was crying this male security said to me

- "shut up, be glad it's done by female, not me

- that moment i'm about to throw fits but my knees were weak due to that body check

 

Apparently that promotor was owned by some Indonesian artists and quickly trying to resolve this issues. The alleged victim of any kind of harassment are welcomed to contact them privately via email.

 

If i'm not mistaken, similar accident happens at EXOs concert during North America tour as well. Many said that korean fans are badly mistreated to the point that it's sexual harassment too. What the hell is happening and why are so many EXO-Ls being mistreated like this? 

I know is nowhere near SM/EXOs fault but it's been happening too many times to be looked over as 'accident'. What do you think and if there's anything SM could do to protect the fanbase what should it be?

 

!!UPDATE!!

so exo9irl here commented that the head of the promotor who apparently seemed to care & all open-headed for criticism and complains turned out to be two-faced b*tch who care nothing but EXO-Ls money. someone tweeted this screen capture of a group chat between Tike Priatnakusumah(head/founder of the promotor), Ima(promotor's staff) and another staffs

here's the translation:

Ima : please eat

Tike Priatnakusumah : Go get some rest, it's a sign that you're a human dear not super hero... but you are a super hero for those ungrateful koreaboos

Ima : even if you're stressed, force yourself to eat. don't delay your meals.

Tike Priatnakusumah: we're about to get to our finish line, then we go on victory lap around ICE (venue) field

Staff : i haven't eat since morning

Tike Priatnakusumah : please eat, don't dance around (joking)

 

 

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I still think NA was bs, but these seem legit.

Sigh.. well I personally expect to be groped in some kind of way going into a venue, but that doesn't make it ok. I hope it's investigated.

 

All the years of ppl breaking rules and sneaking stuff in has made it bad for ppl now.

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This is the same promotor who's responsible for the whole Big Bang Made Tour mess in Indonesia. I thought they've improved because when they work on Infinite Effect INA the concert run smoothly without any major problem. One thing i noticed in IE is there are indeed a lot of fansite that succeed bringing DSLR and stools and disturbed other fans (i don't really know because i'm not on the VIP nor Festival area).

 

Maybe they want to prevent that to happen again but it went out of border.

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"shut up, be glad it's done by female, not me"

 

This part got me. Wtf?! Reading it I had the wish to slap this ass right away. I have null tolerance for sexual harassment. 

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and in the promotor's personal acc. The promotor just laughed at the victims. (in her type of tweet) I saw the capture. And some kpopfans said she did tweet about "just be glad that I made EXO come" something like that.. Back then she didnt lock her personal acc. And now she lock it.. Bcause I think I know.

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Sigh... this is disgusting. They should just use metal detectors and wands. A simple pat down should NOT require all this. Especially on teenage girls. I would sue and press charges to the highest extent of the law.

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I don't think SM can do anything when it comes to this. It's beyond their control as far as I know.

True I don't think SM can do anything about this but hopefully we can reach the promotor, hopefully the promotor will say something about this issue. Because some fans sent their complains to this girl who's one of the concert staffs (from the promotor side) and she just replied bitterly, telling fans that "being gropped" isn't something that dramatic

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TBH instead of emailing privately to the organizers, i wish these girls all go and lodge a police report. If police report doesn't work, they should go and approach the media for the thing to blow up as it will cause the police to react and take action. Emailing privately is just going to keep these incidents quiet or swept under the rug. The fact that security are going overboard with these checks are a huge concern for me. SM can only decide not to work with these organizers again for their next concerts or projects but this is going too far. Even airport security checks don't go to this extent.  

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and in the promotor's personal acc. The promotor just laughed at the victims. (in her type of tweet) I saw the capture. And some kpopfans said she did tweet about "just be glad that I made EXO come" something like that.. Back then she didnt lock her personal acc. And now she lock it.. Bcause I think I know.

Girl I know who you're talking about, that girl is a mess, I read all her responses before she locked her account

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It's legit, a lot of INA fans revealed it the last 2 days and some of them are even the known translators in the fandom. I know 2 friends who went there to the concert and went thru sexual harrassement by the securities, when they complained about it they were just getting laughed at

laughed at??? wtf??? i hate it when sexual harassment taken so lightly like it's nothing  :soul:

 

This is the same promotor who's responsible for the whole Big Bang Made Tour mess in Indonesia. I thought they've improved because when they work on Infinite Effect INA the concert run smoothly without any major problem. One thing i noticed in IE is there are indeed a lot of fansite that succeed bringing DSLR and stools and disturbed other fans (i don't really know because i'm not on the VIP nor Festival area).

 

Maybe they want to prevent that to happen again but it went out of border.

so some succeed brought in the 'prohibited' stuff without being called out or anything? how??? DSLR are HUGE especially the tele lens needed to take shot from afar.

 

 

and in the promotor's personal acc. The promotor just laughed at the victims. (in her type of tweet) I saw the capture. And some kpopfans said she did tweet about "just be glad that I made EXO come" something like that.. Back then she didnt lock her personal acc. And now she lock it.. Bcause I think I know.

she must've thought "what an ungrateful lil kids" & made such irrational justification for her team's epic fail security issues for the concert

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hmmm..

 

the only thing sm can really do is pick better organizers. even that isn't a sure thing.  maybe get rid of the entire no camera thing but idk..

that's what i thought as well! even tho they can't directly take blame they can at least screen check the promotor track record multiple times before hand over their concert plan

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Ah....this part. :._.:

The concert experience made me forget this happened, but this whole vital parts groping was very much true.

 

Thank you for all who gave your concerns - I felt touched reading these posts! But IDK... sadly, in Indonesia, even when a legal suing action is taken, it's very likely that these kinds of offense would not be acted upon seriously. This upsets me so much, like so damn much, but it's sadly true.

 

It's just that the rape culture here is that internalized - sexual harrassment that is not downright rape would be ignored, and, in extreme cases, laughed upon.

 

Edit: Btw, any Indonesian here? Maybe I'm being too skeptical, if you have differing opinions on our country's culture I'd love to hear you. :)

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