Sleigh PSI Score Formula E Was Not Successful, Sahroni: Next Year We Will Succeed, Thank You For The Motivation

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan inspects the almost complete Jakarta Formula E circuit with Formula E Operation (FEO). (Anies Baswedan's Instagram)

JAKARTA - Head of the Jakarta Formula E Organizing Committee, Ahmad Sahroni, responded to PSI General Chair Giring Ganesha's statement that Formula E was not successful.

For Sahroni, Giring's criticism of the electric car racing event is a motivation for the committee and organizers to be able to hold a better Formula E next year.

In the plan, BUMD PT Jakarta Propertindo as the organizer will hold Formula E for three years, starting from 2022, 2023, and 2024.

"Next year we will succeed, Sir (Giring). Thank you, Sir (Giring) for the motivation," said Sahroni on the Instagram account @ahmadsahroni, Monday, June 6.

Sahroni then asked netizens to participate in responding to Giring's statement. From thousands of comments on Sahroni's post, film player Fauzi Baadilla also defended Sahroni.

"There is a weasel in the doi's mind (Giring)," wrote Fauzi in his fauzibaadilla_ account.

Influencer Akbar Rais also commented. He did not agree with Giring who said that Formula E was not successful. "Far from the word success, because it was very successful," said Akbar in the Akbarrais account.

Previously, Giring viewed that Formula E, which was held on Saturday, June 4, had not been declared a success.

According to him, the crowds of spectators, the presence of high-ranking state officials and political figures who came to watch the live races could not be used as a benchmark that the committee and organizers succeeded in holding Formula E.

"You managed to see it from where? If it's just crowded and frenetic, really, it's not a success," he said.

According to Giring, Formula E can be said to be successful if DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and his staff can prove that this racing event can gain profits for the regional treasury and improve the community's economy.

Because of that, Giring emphasized that from the beginning the PSI faction of the DKI DPRD had urged transparency in the use of the budget and the potential for economic benefits to be received from the electric car racing event.

"We have to ask, how much is the profit? How much is the account that goes into it? Then, how much is the budget cost? Profit or loss. If you make a profit, what is the money used for? So if you lose, who will bear it? who bears the public's tax money," he added.