Mayor promises more sports centers

TANGERANG: Mayor Wahidin Halim said that his administration would build a sports center in each of its eight districts within two years.

"I think, it's only by providing adequate sporting facilities that we can produce good athletes to represent the municipality or the province at the national or even international level," he said on Saturday while seeing off 67 athletes representing Banten province to the National Games, which will start on Sept. 2.

The administration had renovated the existing Achmad Yani soccer stadium and the Youth Sports Hall.

"We are now surveying sites for the sports centers," Wahidin added. -- JP