BPGS sets ambitious target following its name change<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Gelora Senayan Management Board (BPGS) set
\nan ambitious target for the next five years following President
\nAbdurrahman Wahid's decision on Sunday to rename the Senayan
\nSports Complex as Bung Karno Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
\"We expect the sports complex to fulfill the requirements for
\ninternational multisports events such as the Asian Games in five
\nyears to come,\" chairman of the Gelora Senayan Executive
\nDirectors (DPGS) Yasidi Hambali told The Jakarta Post on Monday
\nat his office.<\/p>\n
\"The State Secretary has approved BPGS' 2001-2005 five-year
\nplan to up-grade the sports complex to reach this target.\"<\/p>\n
Indonesia withdrew its plan to bid for the 2006 Asian Games
\nhost, which was later won by Qatar, due to its lack of world-
\nclass sports venues.<\/p>\n
Senayan hosted the 1962 Asian Games, the first ever, thanks to
\nIndonesia's first president Sukarno who initiated the complex's
\nconstruction in 1958.<\/p>\n
Yasidi said BPGS expected the complex to be able to host half
\nof the sports featured in international multisports events.<\/p>\n
\"We expect to stage some 16 to 18 sports in the complex. In
\nthe 1997 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, the complex housed 18 of 34
\nsports being staged.\"<\/p>\n
\"The sports complex is set to hold Olympic sports such as
\ntrack and field, gymnastics, soccer and swimming. But other
\nspecific sports, such as canoeing and equestrian, have to be
\nstaged outside the complex.\"<\/p>\n
In 2001, BPGS will concentrate on renovating the Senayan
\nStadium, which has been suffering acute inundation in several
\nsections during heavy rains.<\/p>\n
\"We will work on the stadium's infrastructure, especially its
\nsewerage system which needs to be improved. So far, leakages at
\nthe billiard and squash venues have been fixed,\" said Yasidi.<\/p>\n
\"Another technical problem is the Senayan Stadium's second and
\nthird floors which are not waterproof. Perhaps the Russian
\nengineers, who built the stadium, didn't anticipate heavy
\nrainfall here almost all-year long,\" he added, while pointing to
\nspectators' lack-of-discipline as another cause of the leakage.<\/p>\n
\"Most of the spectators urinate on the seats. Given the
\nuntreated floors, such behavior causes worse leakage.\"<\/p>\n
\"BPGS has established a cooperation with the University of
\nIndonesia's Engineering School and Trisakti University's
\nLandscape School to design a five-year development blueprint for
\nthe sports complex.\"<\/p>\n
\"Using the blueprint, we can fully optimize all the venues
\nwhile at the same time retaining the open space and city forest
\nlocated here.\"<\/p>\n
The Basketball Stadium is another venue to be given priority
\nthis year while confirming there are no plans to build new
\nvenues.<\/p>\n
In the long term, Yasidi said BPGS would upgrade the Senayan
\nSwimming Pool into an integrated aquatic center.<\/p>\n
\"The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has certified
\nthat the main pool has met international standards. But we still
\nhave to install sensitive touch panels and an advanced scoring
\nboard.\"<\/p>\n
\"BPGS will open the possibility for an electronic sign board
\nproducer to install a scoring board in a long term barter or win-
\nwin arrangement. This will reduce our financial burden,\" he said,
\nadding that the scoring board could cost up to Rp 1 billion
\n(US$105,300).<\/p>\n
Speaking on a multisports event requirement of an athletes
\nvillage, Yasidi said it was impossible for BPGS to build an
\nathletes' village due to its unclear future use after the event
\nis over without government or private sector involvement.<\/p>\n
\"We can learn from the Barcelona and Seoul experience when
\nhosting the Olympics by involving the private sector to build the
\nvillage.\"<\/p>\n
\"The developer then sold the village to the public as
\napartments after the Olympics was over.\" (nvn)<\/p>",
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