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PANGKALPINANG - The Provincial Government of Bangka Belitung Islands held a coordination meeting in preparation from the start of welcoming the international championship, Motocross MX GP 2018, to be held exactly in June-July.
Early preparation was prepared. The reason, Babylon back to host the 2018 MX GP championship. Pemrov also has prepared everything for the international grand event was again a success.
Coordination meeting led by Secretary of Babel Yan Megawandi and followed by a number of related institutions such as the Office of Youth and Sports, Culture and Tourism Office, IMI Babel and other related parties. The Provincial Government of Babel held the initial meeting of preparation for the prestigious international event.
Yan said, reflecting the experience of the implementation of the MX GP 2017 ago, will be used as lessons and evaluation to be improved and improved for the better this year. For GP MX circuit this year, keep using GOR Sahabudin circuit, Pangkalpinang City.
He explained that this event is also adjacent to MG XP which will be held in Semarang on 6-7 July 2018 later. So from Babel must be able to explorer to various parties so that the event can be more interesting.
Although the audience from various provinces also consider the mileage, he said, where from Jakarta to Babylon or to Semarang mileage is not too different approximately 50-60 minutes.
"It depends on our strategy to explain how, because this event must be established and we prepare from now on, involving various parties, including IMI Babylon which we ask to improve qualification so that IMI ability is not less good," he told media crew in Pangkalpinang, Wednesday (3/1/2018) afternoon.
Yan also mentioned, most likely still use the old race by considering the carrying capacity and back up is also pretty good.
"We have to hold in 2017 yesterday, the article of the audience MG XP Babel reached 67 thousand spectators, the third largest in the world, how we sell this in order to be successful and interesting," he said.
Head of Department of Youth and Sports of Babel, Suharto said to face MG XP 2018, it has focused budget of Rp10 billion. For the race will be fixed in order not to swallow too much cost, because if the race is moved will cost high.
"The question of electricity from the Governor's desire is that there is a night race, the lights are prepared from the rest of the PBSI 2017 PBSD light bulb yesterday, but that is too high the PLN problem will be resolved, we will discuss it," he said.
While Chief of Culture and Tourism Office of Babel, Rivai added MG XP this year must be packed interesting and creative in order to be a tourist attraction, so that domestic and foreign tourists prefer to attend and watch on the island of Bangka rather than in Semarang.
"Last year, we have prepared 3000 more hotel rooms, but the fact that they stay a little, meaning that the only local viewers watching, while our calculations at least 5000 spectators from outside it was misplaced," said Rivai.