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Ed Sheeran at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at the Forum, Los Angeles. Tickets for Ed Sheeran's concert in Indonesia are currently on sale. Ticket sales opened on Monday at 11 a.m. (shutterstock.com/Featureflash Photo Agency/File)
Tickets to an Ed Sheeran concert in Indonesia are currently on sale. Ticket sales opened on Monday at 11 a.m.
Fans waited to get the tickets online via the BookMyShow Indonesia website. However, the website experienced technical issues in the first hour due to a large number of people trying to access it.
Twenty-four-year-old Raden Arsi Agnitasari got tickets after almost two hours of trying. “I got a queue number, but it moved slowly. I then tried to open the website in another browser and finally succeeded [in getting tickets],” she said.
Read also: All 12,000 Ed Sheeran concert tickets in Malaysia sold out in 30 minutes
Meanwhile, 30-year-old Stephany Josephine got a ticket through a friend. Her friend and her colleagues had been on standby [on the website], she said. The group got tickets at around 12:30 p.m.
Other netizens on Twitter had similar experiences in accessing the website.
ANYONE ON THE QUEUE FOR #EDSHEERANJKT TOO? :") @edsheeranID
— Swifty Up!! (@sweetswiftiness) June 12, 2017
if everyone is on queue, who even is accessing it??? smh #EdSheeranJKT pic.twitter.com/mNNnEB8fHB
— beth ➗ (@abracadabeth) June 12, 2017
This #EdSheeranJKT queue system got me like @BookMyShowID pic.twitter.com/jHxl5Nt0KC
— t (@hauteroshes) June 12, 2017
As of this writing, Ed Sheeran concert tickets for Bronze, Gold, Silver, Festival A and Festival B were sold out, leaving a few seats in the Diamond category.
The British singer-songwriter is slated to perform at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE) in Tangerang on Nov. 9 as part of his Divide tour. (kes)
