The Traveloka hotel and travel ticket booking application clarified the news circulating against Traveloka's Founder and CTO, Derianto Kusuma.

According to PR Manager Traveloka Busrya Oryza, Derianto Kusuma was not present at the 90th Anniversary of Kanisius College at Hall D JIExpo Kemayoran, Saturday (11/11).

Indeed, Derianto was present to be one of the recipients of the award at the event which was attended by the Governor of DKI Anies Baswedan.

“Actually, Mr. Deri (Derianto) was not present. He was on a business trip that day which had been planned months in advance. So if it is said that Pak Deri is there and it is called to provide support (to Ananda), he is not there," said Busyra, Tuesday afternoon (14/11).

Previously, the timeline in cyberspace highlighted the Traveloka boycott. This is indicated by the hashtag #UninstallTraveloka which has lasted from Monday night to Tuesday afternoon.

The Traveloka boycott was carried out by netizens because they thought that Derianto had participated in applauding Ananda Sukarlan who took the Walk Out action when DKI Governor Anies Baswedan gave a speech. Ananda assessed that the committee should not have invited Governor Anies because it was against Kanisius' values.

"We have just seen a lot of people about this, we are also still investigating. What I can say is that he was unable to attend and we have not taken any action,” he said.

Derianto and Ananda are two of the five outstanding Kanisius College alumni who received awards at this event. Besides the two, there were Father Magnis Suseno (a Jesuit figure), Irwan Ismaun Soenggono (a Scout leader) and Dr. Boenjamin Setiawan (founder of Kalbe Farma)