Jakarta (ANTARA) - Head of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Cycling Federation (PB ISSI) General Listyo Sigit Prabowo encourages promotion of cycling as an option amid fuel oil price hike.
"When fuel oil became expensive, cycling can become an alternative to go to work or other places," he told reporters here on Sunday.
Cycling could ease people's burden,he added.
Hence, through PB ISSI, he intended to promote cycling community and culture in Indonesia, especially to turn it into an alternative transportation for the people.
Besides, cycling is also environmentally friendly since it can reduce carbon gas emission coming from motor vehicles.
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"Hence, I think that bicycle culture is healthy culture. Right now, it has became a demand for all of us," Prabowo remarked.
Currently, various new tourism sectors that have bike routes are being planned. The existence of bike routes in new tourism sectors can attract tourists, specifically tourists with fondness toward biking, he noted.
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An increase in the number of tourists could help boost the economy of people living around the bike route areas, he added.
The opportunity to establish biking tourism destinations can also be utilized to draw investors so that they can invest in those regions, especially investors that come from bicycle companies both domestic and overseas.
"Then, MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) emerge. New domestic industries may also grow. We can do all of this if we focus on developing cycling sport," he said.
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