TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian term Om Telolet Om is trending on Twitter; not only in the country but also worldwide.
Some famous disk jockeys like DJ Zedd and DJ Snake tweeted about it with no clear reasons. That has made the Indonesian netizens excited.
"Make a telolet song for us, please," tweeted a netizen.
DJ Martin Garrix and The Chainsmokers also question about it. "What does om telolet om mean?," the two asked on their Twitter accounts and several Indonesian netizens explained about it.
DJ Hardwell also wrote Om Telolet Om and uploaded a video of him honking a bus horn.
The Om Telolet Om phrase refers to an activity of children waiting for bus drivers to honk the bus horn that sounded like the word telolet in Indonesian onomatopoeia. The kids on the roadside like to shout the Om telolet om phrase to the bus drivers so they will honk their bus horns. This has been a fun activity for the children; they record and upload the telolet video to the internet.
