Need for Speed
Monday, February 24, 2020
JAKARTA Governor Anies Baswedan’s decision to hold a Formula E race in the National Monument (Monas) area in early June will only benefit a handful of businesspeople, while most residents of the capital city will be disadvantaged.
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BESIDES losing hundreds of trees that had to be cut down to tidy the electric vehicle race circuit, it is uncertain whether Jakarta residents will benefit from the event.
The massive Rp1.6-trillion funding allocated by the Jakarta provincial government for the Formula E race would have been more beneficial had it been used to anticipate floods or to build affordable housing for the city’s residents. Instead of paying Rp390 billion to
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