Athletic officials pushed upgrade skills<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is
\nseeking to spur the athletics development in southeast Asia
\nthrough a seminar on administrative skills, which began here on
\nFriday.<\/p>\n
The four-day seminar on the basic administration and athletics
\norganization is being hosted by the Regional Development Center
\n(RDC) Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Fourteen countries, including those from the south Asian
\nregion, participated in the seminar at the Century Hotel.<\/p>\n
The participating countries are Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam,
\nBhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar,
\nNepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand.<\/p>\n
\"We are trying to instill more administrative skills for the
\nofficials of the athletics federations in the region as well as
\nequip them with proper and clear knowledge about the management
\nof the organization,\" Kata Farkas, IAAF's Member Services
\nOfficer, told The Jakarta Post after the official opening of the
\nseminar.<\/p>\n
Farkas, who was a keynote speaker along with Maurice Nicholas,
\nher compatriot from the Asian Athletics Association (AAA), said
\nthat she was very optimistic about the prospects of track and
\nfield development in the region.<\/p>\n
She called on the RDC to further step up its development
\nefforts in the organization of recommendable coaching clinics.<\/p>\n
\"Theoretically, if the RDC can organize a good coaching
\neducation, logically and obviously the athletic performance will
\nsubsequently be pushed to a higher level,\" she said.<\/p>\n
RDC Jakarta supervises 19 countries, leaving Afghanistan,
\nIndia, Laos, Pakistan, Vietnam as the only absentees from the
\nseminar.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has four participants in the seminar, including
\nTigor Tanjung, the secretary-general of the Indonesian Athletics
\nAssociation (PASI).<\/p>\n
RDC Jakarta Director Ria Lumintuarso pointed out the need to
\nimprove the ability in managing the organization for the benefit
\nof the athletics development in their respective countries.<\/p>\n
\"Hopefully, the participants can make the best of their
\npresence and apply their upgraded knowledge when they arrive back
\nhome,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Farkas, whose main task is to supervise all nine RDCs in the
\nworld, said that IAAF had allocated US$9 million annually for
\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n
The money is spent in organizing competitions, sport-specific
\nseminars of its own and in the promotional campaign of the sport
\nthrough RDCs.<\/p>\n
The seminar is the third clinic RDC Jakarta has hosted in four
\nmonths. The last two meetings were on physiotherapy and the
\nsteeplechase respectively.<\/p>",
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