At Indonesia's presidential palace, Eid greetings once placed palace employees and their families into an ordered line to meet the president. In testimony recorded by Kompas in 2024, President Sukarno stood on the rear terrace of Merdeka Palace while employees and their relatives queued across the lawn from the front of the State Palace. He reportedly said that he had sometimes become angry with palace staff and should therefore ask forgiveness and receive their Eid greetings first. A separate account of an open house under President Abdurrahman Wahid describes senior officials, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens lining up together to shake his hand, an arrangement said to turn the symbolism of a royal palace into a people's house. The distinctive feature was not simply controlled entry. For the duration of the greeting, a usually hierarchical institution was reorganised into one-person-at-a-time order.