Soccer fans decry poor ticketing service

Soccer fans protested poor ticketing service offered by the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta today.

Hundreds of fans queued for several hours to exchange prepaid vouchers and receipts with tickets to the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Cup final match between Indonesia and Malaysia on Wednesday.

One fan, Karman, said a lack of manpower had resulted in long delays.

“There needs to be more people manning the ticket booths,” he said.

Another fan, Yusril, said the organizers should have added more booths to speed up the process.

“The organizers are making huge profits on ticket sales. It wouldn’t cost much to add a couple more booths to cut down the number of hours we had to wait,” he said.

Fans had waited for an average of four hours to exchange vouchers and receipts with tickets. (gzl)