Bamboo bikes give ‘magic moment’ - Taipei Times

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By Lemuel in News
Updated 2 years ago

As Indonesian President Joko Widodo, widely known as Jokowi, led Anthony Albanese around the lush gardens of a presidential palace south of Jakarta earlier this month, he presented the new Australian prime minister with an unusual gift: A bamboo bike. The night before, designer Singgih Susilo Kartono learned it would be the Spedagi model he crafts in a small village on the island of Java that the leaders would ride side-by-side in a unique moment of bicycle diplomacy. Albanese would tuck his trousers into his socks after the statesmen stripped off their jackets and ties and donned helmets, setting off on the

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