Guess What? Moch. Hindarto

Guess What? Moch. Hindarto

Moch. Hindarto, a retired city police chief who now heads the
athletic development department at the National Sports Council
(KONI), learned how to build up national athletes after he was
cheated.

It happened four years ago, and the ones who cheated him were
no less than sports officials. They apparently marked up the cost
of the training preparation for the 18th Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games Chiang Mai, Bangkok, in 1995.

"They really cheated us. At that time, we were newcomers and
were fresh from the installment ceremony," he revealed last
Saturday.

Hindarto, 60, a retired major general who headed the city
police from 1993 to 1995, recalled that some sports bodies gave
misleading figures on their targets for the Games so they could
secure more money for training and enable unlimited officials to
attend the Games.

Learning from experience, Hindarto tightened the supervision
on the preparation for the 19th SEA Games in Jakarta in 1997.

For this year's Games, scheduled to take place in Brunei
Darussalam in August, he has reserved enough energy to manage the
training program to prepare some 500 athletes.

He has demanded coaches and managers report to him at given
periods and his office conducts tests to make sure it will not be
fooled by sports bodies' officials.

"We're tired of being duped," he said. (ivy)