Bentang Jawa is an unsupported ultra cycling race and self-navigation across Java Island, which starts from west to east. Cyclists can ride as individuals (solo) or in teams (pairs). During the race, cyclists will be invited to explore the various beautiful and mystical areas in southern and central sides of the island of Java; along the coast, a series of hills, mountains, and forests throughout the five provinces across a distance of 1,500 KM with 16,000 meters of elevation gain, that must be covered in 156 hours.
For some cyclists, this will be an event that challenges their spirit of competition, but for others it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
What it asks of you
No one is coming to get you
No support crew. No booked hotels. No spares handed over at the roadside. You carry what you need, you buy what anyone else on that road could buy, and you take help only where it is offered to the public.
That is the whole idea, and it is also the hard part. Most of what riders ask us is some version of the same question: where exactly does the line fall?
Six editions
Two in three make it
A third of everyone who rolls out of Carita does not reach Banyuwangi inside the cut-off. The riders who came back for a second edition already knew that.
Entry
Could you?
Entries for the seventh edition are not open yet. When they open, it is announced here first.
Riders apply rather than simply register, and the crew selects the field. It stays small on purpose — on a road this long, that is part of what makes it what it is.
Films
The same road, a different story
A film from each edition since 2021. The one from 2026 is still being made.
