If you passed Slipi around midday today, you may have spotted this unusual sight:
12:24 Ada orang yg belum diketahui identitasnya memanjat papan reklame di dpn GP Plaza Slipi & msh penanganan. @fudhori pic.twitter.com/VJDZ9Ke7Be
— TMC Polda Metro Jaya (@TMCPoldaMetro) February 28, 2017
12:26 Ada orang yg belum diketahui identitasnya memanjat papan reklame di dpn GP Plaza Slipi & msh penanganan. @fudhori @BPBDJakarta pic.twitter.com/regT2DDJBt
— TMC Polda Metro Jaya (@TMCPoldaMetro) February 28, 2017
Not much was known about the daring billboard climber, other than the fact that he was holding an Indonesian flag and that he was wearing nothing but a koteka, which is a traditional Papuan penis sheath. He also unfurled banners that seemingly protest against organ trafficking.
A photo taken from another angle shows more banners that give more clues as to who he is. We can gather from this picture posted on Pasangmata.com that he’s protesting about some kind of injustice committed by authorities on the island of Adonara, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
There is currently no update as to the man’s identity and whether or not he has come down from the billboard.
However, this incident is strikingly similar to one that happened on December 9, 2016. Back then, a man named Agustinus Woro aka Martinus from NTT scaled a huge billboard in Grogol (very close to Slipi) and unfurled a banner that also protested against organ trafficking.
After he eventually came down, Martinus told the media that he was specifically protesting about the death of his 17-year-old nephew in NTT. According to him, authorities ruled that his nephew died in a accident, but Martinus believes that he was a victim of something more sinister because there was no evidence that his nephew actually died in a motorcycle accident.
Back then, Martinus was fully clothed when he climbed the billboard. If the koteka-wearing climber today is also Martinus, we can conclude that he still hasn’t received justice for his nephew and that he’s become even ballsier (figuratively and literally) in his protest.
