Jakarta Services application discuss, WhatsApp in Indonesia experienced disruptions on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Users have access difficulties ranging from using smartphones to computers or laptops.
The disruption of access to WhatsApp has been acknowledged by Meta Indonesia. They also tried to restore the app.
“We are aware that some people are currently having problems sending messages. We are working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as soon as possible,” Meta Indonesia, which oversees WhatsApp, said in a statement quoted by Antara on Tuesday, October 25. 2022.
Daytime access problem
Previously, WhatsApp services were confirmed to be down in Indonesia, with a peak in access problem reports occurring at 2:28 p.m. WIB with 9,144 reports on the downdetector.id website.
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It was observed that the difficult problem to access WhatsApp started to arise at 13:44 WIB.
Even on social media Twitter, many netizens have also complained about the issue by pinning the #WhatsAppDown tweet.
In a short time, the issue of WhatsApp difficulty accessing has been tweeted over 10,000 times with related topics such as “Checklist 1” and “Error” also tweeted tens of thousands of times by Twitter users. .
Huge impact and disruption occurred in other countries
According to the Businees of Apps report, the number of WhatsApp users in Indonesia has reached 112 million. The disruption is certainly very impactful, especially for those who use the app to coordinate about work.
However, the services of other Meta groups, such as Instagram and Facebook, have not encountered problems with access difficulties and can still be used normally by users in Indonesia.
This difficulty in accessing WhatsApp also occurred in other countries such as India reaching 11,000 reports, then UK reaching 68,000 reports and Singapore reaching 19,000 reports.
(TAP)