Three unidentified teenagers got an exclusive first hand look at the progress of the MRT construction in Jakarta when they posed for a rail smooth selfie in one of the subway line’s tunnels, prompting an official investigation.
The photo, shown above, was posted last week and went viral on Indonesian social media.
Yesterday, PT MRT Jakarta secretary Tubagus Hikmatullah said what they boys did was illegal because they were trespassing and that they didn’t have any safety equipment on. He believes that the photo was taken somewhere between the planned Setiabudi and Senayan stations.
“Somewhere on that line, but we haven’t figured out where they got into the tunnel from,” Tubagus told Kompas.
Tubagus said that PT MRT is going to report the photo to the police so that the selfie takers can be tracked down. The company is also preparing sanctions for the construction contractors, who they blamed for lax security measures that allowed the teens to trespass into the construction site to begin with.
The photo, which was posted on Instagram, has since been taken down.
Selfies on train tracks is pretty common in Indonesia, sometimes leading to horrific accidents in which selfie takers who are not fully aware of their surroundings get hit by trains. At least the boys in the photo above didn’t have to worry about any trains on the MRT construction site.
In related news, MRT officials say that construction on the first phase of the project, which is the line from Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Bunderan HI in Central Jakarta, has reached 71% completion. The target is that it will be complete before the start of the 2018 Asian Games in August 2018.
