Shooting body to hire Chinese coach

Shooting body to hire Chinese coach

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Target Shooting and Hunting
Association (Perbakin) will hire a Chinese coach for the Kuala
Lumpur Southeast Asian (SEA) Games training program.

Perbakin chairman Sutiyoso said on Thursday, on the sidelines
of the SEA Games roll call ceremony, that he expected the
shooting team to win two golds in the individual and team double
trap event.

Indonesia earned two golds in the 1999 Games in Brunei
Darussalam.

Sutiyoso, also Jakarta's governor, said a modest target was
set as the SEA Games Federation decided not to feature eight
events which were gold mines for Indonesia. The shooting event is
offering 34 golds.

"We won 11 golds in the 1997 Games in Jakarta because the
eight events were featured. However, this year we may lose
between five and eight golds in our best events," he said without
elaborating.

However, Sutiyoso failed to mention when the Chinese coach
would arrive here for the training.

"I will make it fast. Perhaps the coach can come on a tourist
visa before we arrange a work permit for him."

The shooting project manager Benny Mamoto said Perbakin had
nominated three Chinese coaches-- Lu Liansheng, Li Weiguang and
Wang Shichun -- to coach the training squad.

"We dropped Lu's name from the list because he had already
coached Vietnam. We are waiting for confirmation from Li and
Wang."

He also said the three Chinese coaches had trained the
Indonesian team in the past.

"Lu worked in Indonesia from 1995 to 1997, while Li in 1998
and Wang from 1992 to 1994."

Benny said the selected coach would get an allowance between
US$1,500 and $2,000.

"The coach might work here for three months. I am confident it
will be fruitful. All the candidates have trained Indonesian
shooters before, so they will have no problems adjusting.
Besides, the shooters only need finishing touches," he said.

Seventeen shooters will attend the third phase of the training
program for the biennial event. They will perform in seven of 20
events featured in the Games: women's trap, women's double trap,
rapid fire pistol, small-bore, sport rifle prone, sport pistol
and air rifle match.

The women's double trap team, who are leading the Indonesian
team for the medal hunt, comprise Sarmunah, Sylvia Silimang and
Supadmi.

"The team competed in the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima,
Japan. But women's double trap teams from Thailand, Singapore and
Vietnam are equally competent," Benny said.

He also said the shooting team was not facing a shortage of
bullet supply.

"The Perbakin chairman gives us his full support in providing
the facilities."

The double trap team is being trained at the Army Strategic
Reserves Command (Kostrad) Headquarters in Cilodong, West Java,
while the pistol and rifle team at the shooting range in the Bung
Karno Sports Complex, Senayan. (ivy)