It went viral with the Call for Netizens to uninstall the Traveloka application. This invitation was observed milling about on social media sharing Tuesday (11/14/2017).

This was apparently triggered by pianist Ananda Sukarlan's walk out when the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan gave a speech.


KepriNews.co.id was monitored on Tuesday (14/11/2017) on social media Twitter the hashtag #uninstalltraveloka was trending first on Twitter Indonesia.

The walk out took place during the 90th anniversary of the founding of Kanisius College on Saturday (11/11), at Hall D JIExpo Kemayoran. Ananda stood up from his VIP seat and walked out when Anies gave his speech. The action was followed by a number of other alumni.

Based on information circulating on the timeline, one of the founders and CTO of Traveloka, Derianto Kusuma, greeted and congratulated Ananda after the walk out and Anies' speech, which was considered as support for Ananda's action.

I don't know who started it, this information then provoked some netizens to boycott Traveloka. The hashtags #BoikotTraveloka and #uninstalltraveloka have become one of Indonesia's trending Twitter topics.

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).

As reported by KepriNews.co.id from the Detik.com page Tuesday (14/11/2017) When contacted, Traveloka PR Manager Busyra Oryza confirmed that Traveloka founder and CTO Derianto Kusuma was one of the award recipients at the event. But he was unable to attend.

“Actually, Mr. Deri (Derianto) was not present. He was on a business trip that day. So if it is said that Mr. Deri is there and it is called to provide support (to Ananda), he is not there," said Busyra.