Banyuwangi - Ibrahim Rusli, a civil servant Tarakan, East Kalimantan, was having uncommon way to celebrate the 17^th Tarakan Birthday (HUT). Man who was born Balikpapan, June 17, 1985, swim across Bali Strait, Wednesday, December 11, 2013. He defeated connection strait between Bali and Java only in 1 hour 8 minutes.

He started his actions on the beach Gilimanuk, Bali, at 06.32. Efforts to conquer Bali Strait weather conditions were sunny with gently wave. He arrived at the beach Watudodol, Banyuwangi, East Java, at 07.40 pm. "The time is even more rapidly than when I trial last May, 1 hours 37 minutes," said Secretariat staff Regional House of Representatives of Tarakan, East Kalimantan.

The Alumnus of the University of Merdeka, Malang, will continue to crossing Madura Strait, which will be started at 12.00 pm. Ibrahim will solve Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) by crossing the strait in a day.

Colleague Ibrahim, Antok Pamona, said Bali and East Java was chosen as the region to promote Tarakan, East Kalimantan because the area was very well known as tourist destinations. "We want to introduce Tarakan, East Kalimantan as tourist destination," said, Antok.

He said that he is not athletes, but only natural swimmer. Since young, he and friends indeed, were fond to swim in the river. His longest experience was meeting the record when he began to conquer the Kayan as long as 12 kilometers.

After graduated from senior high school, then he formally studied at the University Merdeka Malang. He is still devoting his hobby swimming in various rivers and lakes. But finally he wanted to different challenges to conquer the sea. "The sea wave more challenging due to unexpected flows," said Ibrahim.

Ibrahim test his guts to swim around the Derawan Island Sea, Berau Regency, in 2010. It was not long after that, in August 3, 2010, he was swimming in the Sea Sebatik Malaysia. Unfortunately, he failed to defeat it. Ibrahim in 2011, conquer Sea Sebatik in four hours.

But, the challenging most, said Ibrahim, was Bali Strait. Bali Strait has strong wind and flows. "Earlier also had a chance to halt cash and finally chose it spins," said the man who has a body weight 83 kg and was 167 centimeters.

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