RI to start student basketball league<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Two years after launching a professional league,
\nthe Indonesian Basketball Association now plans to set up a
\nregular competition for students.<\/p>\n
Ary Sudarsono of the association said yesterday that the
\ncompetition, a carbon copy of NCAA in the U.S., will kick off
\nafter the general election next year.<\/p>\n
The student tournament will be split into three groups:
\nelementary school, junior high school and senior high school.
\nEach age group will have five regional divisions.<\/p>\n
Ary said that 10 million students from 27 provinces in the
\ncountry are expected to take part in the competition, in which
\nall games will be played on weekends.<\/p>\n
\"Our motto is 'school is number one and basketball is my
\ngame',\" Ary said.<\/p>\n
In an apparent attempt to support the plan, Ary invited two
\nstudent players who stated that they never miss school although
\nthey are active in the sport.<\/p>\n
Ario, a student of Yapenka junior high school in Cipete, South
\nJakarta, was ranked seventh in his class while Dede, a sixth
\ngrade student of Yapenka elementary school, is ranked two.<\/p>\n
\"As a consequence of the student league, school teams will now
\nreplace amateur clubs,\" Ary said.<\/p>\n
Ary said that the national basketball body will discuss the
\nproposal with the Ministry of Education and Culture, the State
\nMinister of Youth Affairs and Sports Office and the National
\nSports Council.<\/p>\n
Ary will start working on his plan with a series of basketball
\nclinics and parades in eight cities across the country, where he
\nis scheduled to provide short-term training courses for teachers
\nand students and to give basic training to elementary school
\nstudents.<\/p>\n
The program, sponsored by Energo milk, will be kicked off in
\nBogor, West Java on April 6 and 7. Then it moves to Central
\nJava's Semarang and Surakarta, Yogyakarta, East Java's Surabaya,
\nWest Java's Bandung, Ujungpandang in South Sulawesi and Medan,
\nNorth Sumatra. (05)<\/p>",
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