What is the elevator that is considered or believed to be the oldest in your country?
For me, the oldest elevator in Indonesia is at the historic London Sumatra (Lonsum) Building in Medan, North Sumatra. According to a local newspaper (see link below), the elevator was installed in
1908 and manufactured by
Waygood & Co., a British lift manufacturer from London, England which was acquired by Otis and became Waygood Otis in the mid 1910's. It is still working today, and still manually controlled. Some local sources says that the elevator is maintained every Saturday by a special lift technician from England. With an age of 110 years old, it is now considered to be the oldest operating elevator in Indonesia. It is also the first electric elevator in Medan.
Note: The elevator is not open to the public. It is only used by the London Sumatra employees or visitors who have appointment in there.
Link of the photo of the newspaper:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ieg1537/images/a/ad/Apr16-Kompaspedia-Lonsum-Lift.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180131031702 (couldn't upload the photo in here due to its large size so I decided to paste the link of the photo here instead)
Some local news claimed the oldest elevator in the country is not in Lonsum, but in other places which were built several years after Lonsum like the Jiwasraya Building in Semarang (1916, OTIS) and even Hotel Indonesia Kempinski in Jakarta (1962, OTIS, elevators replaced by OTIS in 2008). All of these are BS. These stupid news media did not know that the oldest elevator is actually at Lonsum.