In Gibran Jokowi's City, Travelers Who Travel By Train Can Hang Out While Sipping Coffee At Kopi Balapan Station

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Travelers traveling to Surakarta by train can hang out while sipping coffee at another "station", not far from Solo Balapan station.

The presence of the Kopi Balapan Station is expected to be able to bring tourists to visit Surakarta, said Santoso the owner.

"This coffee in almost every region of Indonesia there must be coffee and it has always been a special attraction for tourists. I hope this Balapan Coffee Station can also be an attraction and allure for tourists to visit Surakarta," said Santoso in an official statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. , quoted from Antara, Saturday 12 March.

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, appreciated the collaboration-based economic concept of the Balapan Coffee Station in Solo, Central Java, which has opened up job opportunities so that it has helped revive the national economy.

Sandiaga, who stopped by the Balapan Coffee Station, Solo, Thursday, March 11, which coincided with National Coffee Day, said that the Balapan Coffee Station has a new pattern of economic order, namely a collaboration-based economy.

"The new economy is a collaboration-based economy. The assets belong to the Indonesian Railways, but at the initiative of the Surakarta City government, things are presented that can also create culinary tourism destinations that promote the best products of the archipelago and are processed by Pak Santoso as an entrepreneur and owner of the Balapan Coffee Station, "Sandiaga said.

Moreover, he believes that Indonesia has great potential to become the epicenter of the world's coffee which opens the widest possible business opportunities and employment opportunities for the entire community.

Sandiaga hopes that coffee can be relied on as a money export commodity, can bring in foreign exchange and bring in the widest possible employment opportunities.

Kopi Balapan Station, the name of the place, is only 150 meters from the station exit. Visitors only need to walk five minutes to the east from the Solo Balapan station exit. The location is right on the edge of the road, precisely on Jalan Monginsidi No. 77 Setabelan, Banjarsari District, Surakarta City, Central Java.