14 April 2022
All-Indonesia Athletics Association (PB PASI) has made a breakthrough in the development of national athletic development. In collaboration with PT Freeport Indonesia, they have created a national training center or decentralized national training center for eastern Indonesia in Timika City, Mimika Regency, Papua, to facilitate monitoring, recruiting, and equitable distribution of athletes' achievements in the regions.
The cooperation was stated in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by PB PASI chairman Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and President Director of PT Freeport Indonesia Tony Wenas at the Atlet Century Hotel, Jakarta, Wednesday (13/4/2022). General Secretary of PB PASI Tigor M Tanjung, coaches and main national training athletes in Jakarta were also present at the event.
The collaboration will last three years and will be carried out at the former National Game (PON) Papua 2021 arena, namely the Mimika Sports Complex built by Freeport Indonesia in 2017. “I have served seven years in Papua, I believe we can find the best talent from Papua and its surroundings because they, especially Papuan children, are gifted with extraordinary talents for athletics," said Provincial and Organizational Division Chairperson of PB PASI Zacky Anwar Makarim during a press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday.
Optimization request
Luhut said that he asked the decentralized national training to run optimally from monitoring, recruitment, to training. He hoped that the main national training coaches and athletes can also support this effort by coming directly to Timika. Freeport Indonesia is ready to help mobilize them from Jakarta to Timika and vice versa.
"I asked for a coach from Jamaica (who will be recruited by the main national training team) whose promise to come to Indonesia in June can be invited to Papua. I asked him to help recruit athletes in Papua and train our coaches so that the quality of our coaches is better. Later, our coach can go abroad or an outsider coach is brought here," he said.
Luhut explained that this collaboration would serve as a pilot in developing Indonesian athletes with the concept of decentralized national training. After Timika, he plans to open the same place in Pangalengan, West Java. Luhut wants at least 10 decentralized national training centers. Apart from Papua and West Java, other places may be in West Nusa Tenggara, East Java, and North Sumatra. "I don't want athletes to only pay attention to their sports achievements, but also their education so that there is a future. I have communicated with Professor Yohanes Surya (physicist) to help with the mathematics and language education of the athletes," explained Luhut.
System changes
Tigor said that the decentralized national training was a change in the national training system that had been carried out under the leadership of Bob Hasan (Chairman of PB PASI 1984-2020). At that time, the main national training center was funded by the Ministry of Youth and Sports as well as an independent national training center containing young athletes gathered in Jakarta that causes less than optimal exercise.
Therefore, PB PASI initiated a decentralized national training program, starting in Timika. At the initial stage, it was filled with 8 coaches and 19 athletes. They came from the selection results of the PB PASI Achievement Development team at PON Papua with achievement criteria to enter the top five SEA Games.
The athletes aged 19-25 years were spread over 15 match numbers, namely 11 male numbers and 4 female numbers. Mostly in the sprint and throwing events. It may still increase if other potential athletes are found. For the main national training athletes, they will remain in Jakarta. However, they may occasionally go to Timika to motivate local athletes and find a new training environment.
“The main training program continues. We have worked closely with the Jamaican Association of Track and Field Coaches President David Riley. Later a coach from Jamaica will come here and we may send athletes there. The 4 x 100-meter sprint and relay numbers might be sent there because they match with Jamaica which is good at these two numbers,” claimed Tigor.
Tony said that this collaboration was a form of Freeport Indonesia's commitment to grow and develop with the community, especially in Papua. Through a program that costs Rp20 billion for three years, they want to raise Papua's athletic achievements. “In addition to infrastructure support, we also assist in other facilities and infrastructure. One of them, we want to bring in coaches from abroad, maybe from the United States," added Tony.
Men's Futsal
The chairman of the Indonesian contingent (CdM) at the 2021 SEA Games Vietnam, Ferry J Kono, emphasized that Indonesia had added the number of men's futsal matches to the organizers of the Vietnam SEA Games based on the recommendations of the review team consisting of representatives from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, academics, and practitioners from the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) and Indonesian Sports Committee (KOI). "From that recommendation, there is an additional men's futsal to the SEA Games. In consideration, they are runners-up in the 2022 AFF Cup, said Ferry. (DRI)
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