Mario Teguh Controversy Twit

Mario Teguh apologized on the social networking site account, twitter, regarding one of his controversy twit. He deemed to offend his followers. He wrote some appalling and reaping twits. One of his twits which invited pros and cons is:

Women who are party goers, clubbing lover, staying up until morning, a snob ChitChat, smoker and sometimes drunk, can not be planned to be a wife.

Mario stated, the statement was merely advice for daughters to be careful. "The advice is an input for daughters to be more careful, because their male colleagues can not see the suitability for them to be a companion and mother of the children of the man they love," explained Mario.

This statement invited tons of pros & cons comments. Mario tried to give clarification and brief explanation upon his twit in order to avoid misunderstanding. Some followers were agreed and understand but, still, there were misinterpretations upon this, though. Feel it didn't work, after the board meeting then on Sunday, 21 Feb 2010, Mario Teguh's twitter account officially deleted.

Hamdi Muluk, a psychologist of University of Indonesia considered the controversy statement in Mario Teguh's Twitter account as the correct moral step.

"I personally as a man might agree with that, I do not like seeing women clubbing till the morning, and drunk," he explained to INILAH.COM, Monday (22 / 2).

He thinks women should not be feel cornered with Mario's twit. Hamdi added, if we read the sentence written in Mario's twitter status, in fact it is difficult to understand a mother will become a right model if her attitude was similar to what Mario has written.

But he appealed that Mario should not only addressed his statement to women, but intended also to all gender. "But a man (Mario) has a right to speak up, which moral basic he believed was right," said Hamdi.

Gain Support

Mario Teguh continue to gain support upon his statement. His statement actually have a positive impact to strengthen good families life.

"One purpose of marriage is to have children. Meanwhile, smoking can really cause cancer, pregnancy and fetal Fatwa disorders, not to mention other economic and social effects" said Secretary of Fatwa MUI Commission Dr. Asrorun Niam Sholeh to detik.com, Monday (22 / 2 / 2010).

According to this researcher of Institute of Religious and Social Studies (eLSAS), in a religious perspective, marriage is a great deal that has a dimension of worship. As the door to build a family and a wider community, it must be built and started from the smallest things, like choosing a wife to be.

"In this context, Mario Teguh's statement is very constructive and visionary. This statement should be placed proportionally to remind us to re-tighten family life where national life arrangement began to breakdown. One of the reasons is family life torn apart," said Niam.

"So I do not think he needs to delete his Twitter account and remove the statements. His Statements were quite good and it could be a missionary endravor," said Niam. (From various sources).