Johana Krisna Murti: The pleasure, freedom and peace the big bikes bring

Times are changing but it still is an unusual to see women riding big motorbikes in Indonesia. Earlier this year a group of ten women caused a stir when they celebrated International Women’s Day when together they road big bikes around the streets of Jakarta. Why are they so committed to one another and to demonstrate their love for one another and for biking?

Johana also enjoys trail-bike riding and being outside the city. Besides biking she is also the co-founder of Aksara Jiva. Source: Courtesi Johana Krisna Murti, Trail-Hambalang 2020.

Johana Krisna Murti was one of those ten women motor-bike riders.  She explains to Sri Dean the importance of riding motor bikes in her life from the exhilaration of being on the road to her belief that the best friendships she has found in life have been through biking.

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For Johana Krisna Murti motor-bike riding is an essential part of her life that fills her with a sense of freedom, exhilaration and peace. Source: Courtesy Johana Krisna Murti, triumph_jakarta 2019.