Beyond the Spectacle: The Pain and Grief Suffered by Indonesian Rooftoppers

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201219.097How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rooftopping, rooftoppers, social media fame, urban exploration

Abstract

One of today’s popular urban explorations (urbex) is rooftopping, namely the craze of climbing skyscrapers, bridges, chimneys or towers wearing no harnesses for breathtaking stunt-like photos intended for social media fame. The data show that the number of victims due to rooftopping accidents cannot be underestimated. However, this cannot stop the ever-increasing number of new rooftoppers. Many people consider that rooftoppers do rooftopping for the pursuit of fame, attention, and revenues. Very little is known that certain groups of rooftoppers do rooftopping for other motivations. This paper investigates the motivations of Indonesian rooftoppers and the kinds of punishment they ever underwent. Fourteen Indonesian rooftoppers were recruited using a snowball sampling technique for this ethnographic study and Hermeneutics theory by Wilhelm Dilthey is used to analyse the data obtained from the in-depth interviews and observation. Surprisingly, this study reveals that most of the Indonesian rooftoppers are not obsessed with neither fame nor money, whereas some of them ever underwent severe punishments given by the security officers. The study concludes that the ultimate goal of most of the Indonesian rooftoppers is freedom and some of the punishments are inhumane.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yusuf Kurniawan
AU  - Mugijatna
AU  - Warto
AU  - Wakit A. Rais
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/21
TI  - Beyond the Spectacle: The Pain and Grief Suffered by Indonesian Rooftoppers
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICOSAPS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 644
EP  - 649
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201219.097
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201219.097
ID  - Kurniawan2020
ER  -