H-17 Heading To The Mandalika MotoGP, Ticket Sales Still Low

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JAKARTA - Ticket sales for the Mandalika MotoGP are still low. Even though the schedule for the international race is only 17 days away. Various efforts were made by the local government to meet the target audience, namely by targeting government officials to students in the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) area.

As of February 20, 2022, only 21,530 tickets have been sold. Meanwhile, the target set by the government is 60 thousand spectators. This means that there are more than 35,000 tickets still to be sold.

The details are for the grandstand category as many as 1,045 tickets on the first day have been sold, 3,934 tickets on the second day, and 14,473 tickets on the third day. Meanwhile, for general admission tickets, 196 pax were sold on the first day, 539 pax were sold on the second day, and 1,343 pax were sold on the third day.

The Regional Secretary of the NTB Provincial Government, Lalu Gita Ariadi, explained that there were a number of obstacles faced in relation to ticket sales, which had only sold 21,000. For example, the vigilance of the public as if they are still waiting for the development of COVID-19 ahead of the MotoGP event.

"There are several factors of concern about how this health policy will be when there are easing and facts on the ground, or health is under control, of course, there will be no extra costs incurred, the audience will no longer be burdened with antigens and so on," he said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, March 1st.

In order to encourage ticket sales, Lalu Gita said that he had taken a number of steps, including the Provincial Government in writing to the provincial apparatus and the district/city-regional secretary to facilitate ticket bookings to the NTB community members collectively through the provincial or district/city offices.

"Giving special prices to people with NTB ID cards at a discount of 10 percent before tax, and limiting the highest price for hotel rates in the NTB province with a Governor's Regulation so that the price is affordable," he explained.

Spread 35 thousand tickets

Lalu conveyed that his party had a target of distributing 35,000 tickets to regional apparatus to Islamic boarding school students in the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) region. This is to support the increasing number of tickets sold.

"We then tried to map the 35,000 tickets. We distributed them in 10 ticket sales clusters in NTB. From the NTB Provincial Government to the ASN, they are required to watch MotoGP," he said.

Not only that, even teachers, police, soldiers, and students were also mobilized to sell MotoGP tickets which had not yet been sold. As for each community cluster, 2,000 to 25,000 MotoGP tickets are allocated for sale.

In detail, 4,000 tickets will be distributed to the NTB Province State Civil Apparatus (ASN). Then 16,000 tickets to the ranks of regents and mayors throughout NTB. Then, 2,000 tickets to the ranks of the NTB Police Chief, and 2,000 tickets to the ranks of the Danrem, Danlanal, and Danlanud NTB.

Then, 2,000 tickets for regional vertical agencies, 2,500 tickets for BUMN and banking, 2,000 tickets for Professional Associations (Kadin, Associations, Contractors and Consultants), 2,500 for teachers and students, 500 tickets for ustadz and santri, and 1,500 tickets for the general public, or Chinese PITI-PSMII.