Have you ever wondered what the serene Buddhist monk statues on Borobudur are thinking about? We may never know for sure – but now you can hear the official thoughts of Borobudur Temple in Yogyakarta (or at least its social media team) via the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s officially verified Twitter account.
Arguably Indonesia’s most famous tourist attraction (besides the entire island of Bali) Borobudur was granted the blue check mark beside its Twitter handle (@candiborbudur) today along with two other cultural icons of Yogyakarta: Prambanan Temple (@candiprambanan) and Kraton Yogyakarta (@kratonjogja).
They are the first three cultural sites in Indonesia to have received verified accounts, which are more commonly given out to notable people and organizations.
“We are proud to help raise the names of @candiborobudur, @candiprambanan and @kratonjogja in the eyes of the world, as well as to promote the natural beauty of Yogyakarta,” said Roy Simangungsong, Business Country Head for Twitter Indonesia, in a statement released on Monday.
In the statement, Twitter said that 43 percent of users in Indonesia send a tweet while visiting the locations of cultural icons. It went on to say that the microblogging site hopes the newly verified accounts will help spread awareness about the beauty of Indonesia throughout the world.
It seems to be working already. One of the first tweets directed towards Borobudur’s account after it got the blue checkmark were words of welcome from one of the most iconic cultural sites in the entire world: The Taj Mahal.
Two famous cultural landwarks talking to each other on Twitter… We’re definitely living in the 21st century, aren’t we?
