Official gallops his way to office

Official gallops his way to office

JAKARTA: An Indonesian official, heeding a government call to conserve energy, has exchanged his car for a more ecologically- friendly means of transport -- a horse, a report said Wednesday.

"I am doing this because of the presidential instruction," said G.S. Anas, who heads the administration section of the South Sulawesi Plantation Office in the provincial capital of Makassar.

Another reason was that he was "too lazy to queue for fuel at the fuel station", said Anas, also the head of the South Sulawesi Horse Breeders' Association, according to the detikcom online news service. His chauffeur, who usually drives him to the office, rode alongside him for the two-kilometer (1.2 mile) trip, the report said. -- AFP