Olympics training director to submit mission report
JAKARTA (JP): The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games are over but the accountability report of the Indonesian contingent has yet to be completed.
Indonesia's Olympics executive training director Arie Sudewo said Wednesday that he would submit the report to the Olympics project manager and chairman of the National Sports Council (KONI) Wismoyo Arismunandar next week.
Arie, who is also KONI's vice chairman, told reporters Wednesday that the report will include training programs, Olympics results and financial reports on training programs.
"I will only report on the use of money which had been placed under my responsibility as the training director."
"Pak Wismoyo will publicly announce his accountability report to the people, the government and members of the House of Representatives."
Arie said he did not have any problems making the report as he had his own internal auditors who had done the auditing since the training period.
"We have hired auditors from a public accounting firm and not from KONI. They have audited the use of the training funds," he said.
KONI has accumulated more than Rp 6.9 billion (US$810,000) it needed to finance the six-month training for the Olympic Games. The fund was obtained from the government, the Gelora Senayan Management Board (BPGS) and private sectors including McDonald's Indonesia, Samsung, Extra Joss energy drink and PT Telekomunikasi Seluler Indonesia.
Indonesia brought home one gold thanks to the men's doubles shuttlers Candra Wijaya and Tony Gunawan, three silvers from women's weightlifter Lisa Rumbewas, mixed doubles shuttlers Tri Kusharjanto and Minarti Timur and men's singles shuttler Hendrawan.
Two more bronzes were contributed by women's weightlifters Sri Indriyani and Winarni.
Arie assured that there was a surplus from the Olympics training fund.
"I can guarantee that there will be a surplus. But I don't know the figure. Hopefully we can know it next week. It will be reimbursed to the project manager," he said.
Arie also announced at the same time that he had set up a special task force to redefine KONI's function and structure following the disclosure of the office of the state ministry of youth affairs and sports.
"The task force will have three units which are in charge of the organizational affairs, the budgeting, and the legal affairs," he said, adding that members of the task force will invite other related institutions such as the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Office of the State Ministry of Administrative Reform.
He said that except for the legal affairs unit, the others were expected to finish their jobs by January at the latest.
"We will present the conclusion in the KONI annual meeting in January and ask for approval from sports organizations and KONI's provincial chapters. To smoothen the way for approval, we will first invite them for a discussion before we reach a conclusion," he said. (ivy)