Ministers make poor sportsmen

Ministers make poor sportsmen

From Bisnis Indonesia

As soon as it became known that donated "sports funds" were
being kept in a private bank account of a Cabinet minister who
was also a sports organization chairman, I could only imagine how
rich these Cabinet ministers doubling as sports organization
chiefs would be if all the donations for those organizations were
kept in their own private bank accounts.

It seems that the time has come to end the practice of naming
Cabinet ministers or other government officials to head sports
organizations. Their presence there is of no use anyway. Proof:
On a world scale, we have not been able to excel in any sport at
all. Or let's not even think about world sports; even in
Southeast Asia we have been doing badly.

Let's leave the management of sports to the professionals.
Stop state interference in sports and leave this area to private
business people. Let them wrack their brains and find money
through honest means, and not by extorting it from other business
people.

F. YOLANDA

Jakarta