The Sponsor Of Formula E Is Still A Mystery, Gun Romli Throws A Funny Satire: From The Unseen Realm I Guess

Illustration of Formula E Circuit (Instagram.com/@formulaejakarta_)

JAKARTA - NU activist as well as Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) politician Gun Romli has made insinuations about the implementation of Formula E. How not, 15 days before this event is held, the Jakarta E-Prix's organizing committee has yet to announce a sponsor.

Usually in big events like Formula E, the presence of sponsors is important for the organizing committee because it is one of the indicators of success. According to Gun Romli, event sponsorship is a form of reciprocity of the existing cooperation.

"The sponsor is from the unseen world, it seems. The name of the sponsor should want to be exhibited, published, broadcast as big as possible, that's reciprocity from the sponsorship," said Gun Romli via a tweet on his Twitter account, @GunRomli quoted Friday, May 20.

"If you don't mention it or want it to be written 'servant of Allah', is this donating to the mosque or sponsoring the race?" added Gun Romli.

The chairman of the Organizing Committee (OC) for Formula E Jakarta, Ahmad Sahroni, admitted that his party asked the Minister of BUMN, Erick Thohir, to provide sponsorship from BUMN companies for the implementation of Formula E.

"My team and I really hope that BUMN will provide sponsors," said Sahroni at a press conference in Ancol, North Jakarta, Thursday, May 19.

Sahroni sees that this state-owned company needs to participate in the financing of Formula E. This is because the electric car race is an international event broadcast in various countries.

Sahroni also admitted that he had met Erick Thohir directly after President Jokowi's review of the Formula E circuit some time ago.

"On May 9, after the president came on Thursday, Monday I went to Mr. Erick to submit a proposal. But to this day there has been no feedback," said Sahroni.

Regarding the certainty of sponsors, the organizers and the organizing committee of the Jakarta E-Prix have never announced who will finance the Formula E race.

According to Jakpro's Vice Managing Director of Formula E, Gunung Kartiko, several parties have agreed to become sponsors, ranging from banks to digital companies. However, Gunung did not mention who the parties were.