A woman walks on Jan 31, 2024 past a mock funeral wreath commemorating the 100th day of an out-of-service escalator at Bekasi railway station in the West Java city. - Antara
JAKARTA: For more than three months, millions of Indonesian eyes were focused on social media, but not on content related to the 2024 election: on daily posts urging authorities to repair an escalator that had been out of service for over 100 days at Bekasi railway station in Bekasi, West Java.
The hype over the broken escalator began with daily updates from local resident Mega, a 26-year-old social media specialist who commutes to her Jakarta workplace by train. She uploaded a picture of the broken escalator every day to her account (@PernebangRoket) on X, formerly Twitter, demanding that it be repaired.
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