Indonesia capital city of Jakarta is scheduled to host Formula E racing next year, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan stated.
The Jakarta governor's statement came up after he concluded the talks with Formula E co-founders Alexandro Agag and Alberto Longo in Formula E racing series held in New York's Brooklyn on Saturday.
"Thank God, we made it! Jakarta will be one of world's cities to host the prestigious Formula E racing in mid-2020," the governor confirmed in his Instagram social media account.
Anies said the Formula E event in Jakarta would use Street Circuit concept with observation processes related to the race location and its facilities have been completed by the Formula E team on July 8 to 9.
He added that the international racing event would generate some 1.2 trillion rupiah (about 85.6 million U.S. Dollars) of economic activities in the capital city.
The Formula E racing is a prestigious international car racing event comparable to Formula 1. Cars used in Formula E use environmental-friendly electric engines.
Former top Formula 1 racers now race in Formula E, include Felipe Massa, Pascal Wehrlein, Stoffel Vandoorne, Sebastian Buemi and Jean-Eric Vergne.
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understand it. My banking career continued in Yogyakarta when I joined in a program funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),as the coordinator for a program aimed to help improve the quality of learning and teaching process in private universities in Yogyakarta. When the earthquake stroke Yogyakarta, I chose to join an international NGO working in the area of ?disaster response and management, which allows me to help rebuild the city, as well as other disaster-stricken area in Indonesia. I went on to become the coordinator for emergency response in the Asia Pacific region. Then I was assigned for 1 year in Cambodia, as a country coordinator mostly to deliver developmental programs (water and sanitation, education, livelihood). In 2009, he continued his career as a protocol and HR officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya, and two years later I joined the Political and Economic Section until now, where i have to deal with extensive range of people and government officials, as well as private and government institution troughout eastern Indonesia.
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