PSSI to set up provincial chapters for old 'Komda'

PSSI to set up provincial chapters for old 'Komda'

JAKARTA (JP): Members of the All-Indonesian Soccer Federation
(PSSI) will recommend the setting up of provincial chapters to
replace the current system of boards of commissioners (Komda) in
a plenary meeting on Wednesday.

PSSI spokesman Tondo Widodo said on Tuesday that the
federation's commission A also voted against a proposal to select
executive members who would elect the chairman.

Under current guidelines, congress members elect the new
chairman who then appoints the executive board.

The decision was reached in the plenary meeting on the second
day of the three-day PSSI national congress at Hotel Indonesia in
Central Jakarta. The 257 members grouped in commission A
discussed the organizational issues, the work reports of the
PSSI's executive board for the 1995 to 1999 term and the work
plan for the 1999 to 2003 term.

Another commission B meeting discussed technical guidelines
for the work plan. The discussions were closed to the media.

Summaries of the discussions will be presented at a plenary
meeting on Wednesday, which will bring the members of the two
commissions on the same table.

At the congress' conclusion on Wednesday, the members will
ratify the accountability report of the outgoing executive
board's committee and dismiss it at the same time, elect the new
chairman and ratify decisions of the congress.

Tondo said that it took about two hours for the head of the
meeting to convince all members about the importance of giving
greater autonomy to provincial chapters.

He said that officials of soccer clubs and federations were
confused about their status should the commissions be changed to
provincial chapters.

"There are no representing principles in PSSI. All the soccer
clubs and federations are still under PSSI's supervision. They
have the right to vote in the national congress.

"The federations will no longer settle in the regencies but in
the cities where they develop and do their soccer activities," he
told a media briefing.

He said that the status of the players, competition rules and
transfer of players would be elucidated before the sixth
Indonesian Soccer League (Ligina) which is scheduled for
November.

Tondo said that some members raised a proposal to select the
executive board members who would elect the chairman. The
proposals were later decided in a vote.

"We are using the standard pattern of the FIFA and Asian
Football Confederation (AFC). All the federations' members elect
the chairman who will set up his own executive board."

He said that any change in regulations would only take effect
in four years' time and could not be applied in this year's
congress.

He expressed confidence that commission B would not reject the
recommendation.

"There are fewer members of commission B than there are of
commission A. There will be no significant rejection," he
said. (ivy)