VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The biggest sporting event in Asia, the 2018 Asian Games, taking place in Jakarta and Palembang since August 18, has entered the middle of the period. The sports event involving 45 countries in the Asian region provides its own excitement and entertainment for the people of Indonesia and the world. The presence of supporters from each country to encourage their team is a special feature of this ongoing event. The presence of supporting communities as well as foreign tourists can certainly be one of the momentum to expand friendship among people from various parts of Asia, especially for the citizens of Jakarta and Palembang. At this moment, a friendship application named Tantan claims to have experienced a significant increase in users.A week before this grand event was opened, one of the friendship application vendors noted a surge in user activity along with an increase in the number of compatibilities between users by 56 percent. When athletes are fighting for the glory of their country, supporters can use the moment to add their friendship. Jack WU, Marketing Director of one of the friendship applications on Friday (08/24/2018) sid that he saw a very significant increase in users during the 2018 Asian Games period. He commented that of course this was a good thing and he hoped his application can be a bridge to expand friendship among various parts of the country in Asia. Jack WU hopes that with the wider friendship, of course many positive things can happen. He also wants this application to open opportunities for cooperation between countries on the Asian continent.Jack Wu asserted, his friendship application guarantees users with a high level of security and a variety of sophisticated filtering systems such as fake account identification. This social application is specifically designed for young people in their 20s. This Friendship application also offers a new way to meet each other. With a swipe and match system, it allows two users to start a conversation when they like each other. This application also claims to get one billion swipes per day and has a total of seven billion matches for its users. In Indonesia, this application captures more than millions of users.