Unboxing Ducati for Personal Video Content, Cleverly Taking the Opportunity or a Sign of Apathy?

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Good news fellas! Our country, Indonesia, is trusted by the world to host the FIM Superbike World Championship! WSBK itself is a mass production motorcycle racing event. However, the motorbike used has been specially overhauled to take part in the race. Currently, there are five manufacturers competing in the WSBK event, namely BMW Motorrad, Yamaha, Ducati, Honda, and Kawasaki.

Cool bikes, isn’t it?! Plenty of people are allured to celebrate this event, their enthusiasm peaked! Even there is someone who unboxed one of the pretty Ducati before it’s time, maybe he is too excited for Christmas until he opens up the box first? Apparently, this person only wanted to make a video content by taking advantage of his privileges to be able to see the inspection procedure of this superbike, but we need to gain understanding on why such action became controversial.

These superbike package inspections were carried out to ensure that the goods brought into Indonesia are in accordance with the master list. The results of the inspection will later become the basis for examining the goods that will be brought out of Indonesia after the race is over, whether they are in accordance with the number and type of goods brought in.

Inspection of logistics cargo is carried out according to the rules, has received permission and is accompanied by Dorna Sport during the process. The involvement of the Freight Forwarder got permission from Dorna Sport and Customs to open the crate and check because it needed to take the chassis number.

It is unfortunate that when the inspection was carried out, there was someone who had no interest and did not understand the ongoing procedure, took a video of it and unfortunately, it went viral with inappropriate news content. It was an act of photography ethics violation and this can also be used as a depiction of how low the knowledge about documenting certain conditions.

Countries are developing, the infrastructure builds rapidly, motorbikes are racing, therefore our mindset should be more precise, right? The government already spent a lot of money for this Mandalika circuit and there is a more expensive price that we should pay after this controversy, which is the world trust. Trust is an expensive thing to recover, so the organizing committee took action to explain this matter. MGPA President Director Ricky Baheramsjah has discussed this with Dorna Sport and apologized, luckily they can understand.

In conclusion, recording the unboxing video is lack of awareness that the perpetrator behold—apathy. This condition serves as a notice to all of us that not everything we find interesting must be documented without regard to the available procedures as well as being an evaluation material for the organizers to improve the communication and security within the system.

Topic: Current Issues

Tags: Ducati, WSBK, Mandalika Circuit

References:

https://www.kompas.com/sports/read/2021/10/30/16000038/bakal-digelar-di-mandalika-apa-itu-wsbk

https://www.merdeka.com/peristiwa/duduk-perkara-unboxing-motor-ducati-di-sirkuit-mandalika.html