Miss Indonesia is the 57th Miss International!

Kylie Verzosa of the Philippines & Kevin Lilliana of Indonesia
Photo courtesy: www.miss-international.org

The 57th edition of the Miss International beauty pageant took place on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at the Tokyo Dome City, Tokyo, Japan. Kylie Verzosa of the Philippines crowned her successor Kevin Lilliana of Indonesia at the end of the event. Another feat after winning 2nd runner-up last year. This is the first time that Indonesia won a Big 4 pageant. This country has been performing very well in Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Supranational and Miss Grand International as well.

The 21-year old beauty queen from Indonesia was trained in the Philippines by Kagandahang Flores (KF), one of the country's leading pageant camps. KF is also the pageant camp of the 2017 Miss Earth Karen Ibasco, 2017 Miss Globe 1st runner-up Nelda Ibe, 2017 Miss Grand International 2nd runner-up Elizabeth Clenci and 2017 Miss Universe Top 10 finalists Rachel Peters. 

Miss International 2017 and the runner-ups. Photo courtesy| www.miss-international.org

Finishing second is Miss Curacao, Chanelle Wilhelmina Maria. She also represented her country in 2016 Miss Universe edition. On the other hand, Miss Venezuela, Diana Croce de Garcia placed third.

Rounding out the winners' circle are Amber Dew of Australia and Natsuki Tsutsui of Japan who finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Meanwhile, the delegates who made the Top 8 were:

Jocelyn Mieles of Ecuador
Phounesup Phonnyotha of Laos
Ashley Powell of United Kingdom.

The candidates who made the Top 15 were: 

Pihla Koivuniemi of Finland

Angela Martey of Ghana

Vanessa Villars of Honduras

Darelys Santos of Panama

Petra Varaliova of Slovakia

Tayla Skye Rovinson of South Africa

Ratiyaporn Chookaew of Thailand

Photo courtesy| www.miss-international.org

Aside from the big winners, other delegates also received special awards:

Miss International Africa: Miss Ghana, Abigail Martey

Miss International America: Miss Bolivia, Carla Maldonado

Miss International Asia: Miss Korea, Seung Woo Nam

Miss International Europe: Miss United Kingdom, Ashley Powell

Miss International Oceania: Miss New Zealand, Michelle Isemonger

Miss Japan, one of the crowd favorites, won for her national costume, while Miss Indonesia got the Miss Best Dresser award. The Miss Perfect Body award went to the delegate from Australia.

Congratulations to all the winners!