Tour d'Indonesia is an annual road bicycle racing

Road bicycle racing

Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

 held in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. First staged in 2003, Tour d'Indonesia together with Tour de Singkarak

Tour de Singkarak

Tour de Singkarak is an annual road bicycle racing held in West Sumatra, Indonesia, and named after the Lake Singkarak. First staged in 2009, Tour de Singkarak together with Tour d'Indonesia and Tour de East Java is one of Indonesian official tournament series of Union Cycliste International...

 and Tour de East Java is part of the Indonesian official tournament series of the Union Cycliste International (UCI). It covers more than 1,300 kilometres — from Jakarta

Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

 it runs through the inland of Java

Java

Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

 all the way to Bali

Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

 — and lasts for almost two weeks. It is held annually around the months of October

October

October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the...

 to December

December

December is the 12th and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.December starts on the same day as September every year and ends on the same day as April every year.-Etymology:...

. The total prize money from 2006 to 2010 was US$100,000. This international bicycle event has attracted teams from Indonesia as well as abroad, especially Asian teams, such as from Iran, Japan, Philippines and Malaysia.

The main sponsor from 2003 to 2006 was Dji Sam Soe, a cigarette brand of the Sampoerna group. In 2007 Tour d'Indonesia was cancelled due to lack of funding and failure to attract a sponsor. In 2008 the tour was held again sponsored by Speedy

Speedy

Speedy is the name of two DC Comics superheroes, fictional characters that have each served as teenaged sidekicks for the Green Arrow .-Roy Harper:The original Speedy's real name was Roy Harper, Jr....

 broadband access of Telkom. Until the 2010 edition Speedy remained as official sponsor of this bicycle race.

Winners

Editions

• 2003: ?
• 2004: Jakarta–Denpasar (1,500 km, 9 stages)
• 2005: Bandung–Denpasar (1,433 km, 9 stages)
• 2006: Bandung–Denpasar (1,352 km, 9 stages)
• 2007: cancelled
• 2008, 23 November–5 December: Jakarta–Denpasar (1,726.3 km, 12 stages)
• 2009, 22 November–3 December: Jakarta–Denpasar (1,513.5 km, 10 stages, 1 criterium)
• 2010, 24 October–3 November: Jakarta–Denpasar (1,423 km, 10 stages)
• 2011, 2 October-12 October: Jakarta–Denpasar (1,316 km, 10 stages)

External links

Indonesia cycling