Rally of Indonesia (also known as the Indonesia Rally) is the largest rallying event held in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. Currently part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), it has twice been incorporated into the

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...

(WRC) calendar, in 1996 and 1997; a planned running in

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was cancelled due to political crisis that year. This rally is mostly held in North Sumatra, although it was also held several times in

South Sumatra South Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southeast of the island of Sumatra, The province spans and had a population of 8,467,432 at the 2020 Census. The capital of the province is Palembang. The prov ...

and South Sulawesi. The APRC event on 25–26 September 2010 was to be observed by the FIA as a candidate event for an inclusion to the WRC 2012 calendar, although ultimately neither event were held; the rally returned as a national event in 2013. After nine years of absence, it was announced that Indonesia would return to the APRC in 2019 as the Rally of Indonesia, which will be held at its traditional base in North Sumatra.

List of previous winners

References

Rally competitions in Indonesia R International sports competitions hosted by Indonesia

1986 establishments in Indonesia Recurring sporting events established in 1986

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