Jokowi Gebers Kawasaki W175 Around Lake Toba, If Sandiaga Uno Chooses A Gesits Electric Motor

Sandiaga Uno (Photo via Twitter)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo rides a motorcycle while touring the Lake Toba area, North Sumatra. If Jokowi rides a Kawasaki W175, while the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno, rides the Gesits electric motorbike.

Jokowi and Sandiaga Uno rode their respective motorbikes from Simpang Sibisa to the Parapat Free Beach Area.

The Gesits motorbike used by Sandiaga Uno is the result of a collaboration between the Ten November Institute of Technology (ITS) and the business world.

Sandiaga Uno stated that the plan was for the electric vehicle to be developed and placed in tourist destinations.

"We will develop it as part of eco-tourism facilities in tourist destinations as an environmentally friendly vehicle, to support sustainable tourism," said Sandiaga in his social media upload, Thursday, February 3.

The presence of Sandiaga Uno and Jokowi to the destination was claimed as a quick move to provide road infrastructure to destinations such as Lake Toba.

"We are moving quickly to ensure that infrastructure such as roads and bridges are good and proper," said Sandiaga Uno.

"Because we want all the policies presented by the government to be right on target, right to benefit and on time so that they have an impact on economic revival and community employment," said Sandiaga Uno.

The next agenda, I accompanied Mr President @jokowi around Lake Toba by riding an electric motorbike from Gesits, the helmet & jacket I was wearing were produced by the MSME Elders Company. (Photo: BPMI @setkabgoid) pic.twitter.com/AbczVopwL8

— Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno (@sandiuno) February 2, 2022

Photo: BPMI Setpres/Laily Rachev

The president deliberately uses a motorbike because he wants to breathe fresh air from Lake Toba. In addition, Jokowi also wants to try out his supporting road infrastructure.

"Me and the ministers want to breathe the fresh air of Lake Toba because the air here is very fresh, it's a loss if you don't ride a motorbike. Also look at the infrastructure, the road is smooth or not, yes, earlier it was 80 percent smooth, there were 20 percent still waves a little bit. I have conveyed it to the Minister of Public Works," said the President in his statement at the Parapat Free Beach Area.

According to information, the 11-kilometer route that the President has taken offers beautiful views at a number of points. In addition to the fresh air, the roads are also varied and winding and this is what distinguishes it from the road in Mandalika which the President also tested.

"Here the air is cold and fresh. If there (Mandalika) it is straight, here it is winding, the difference is that," said the President.

On that occasion, the President also hoped that the existing road infrastructure could be connected and integrated with a number of tourist areas.

"Everything can be integrated if possible. However, it will not be possible in the near future because everything has a priority scale, which one is next," he explained.