Subagyo favorite for shooting body chief

Subagyo favorite for shooting body chief

JAKARTA (JP): The executive director of the Indonesian
Shooting and Hunting Association (Perbakin), Sutiyoso, said Lt.
Gen. Subagyo Hadi Siswoyo, the Army's deputy chief of staff,
would be the right person to chair the association.

Speaking at the opening of the association's national congress
at the Borobudur Intercontinental Hotel on Friday, Sutiyoso, who
is also the governor of Jakarta, said Subagyo would be able to
handle all the potential problems within the association, whose
athletes won 11 gold medals in the 19th Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games last month.

"Shooting has a good chance to win many medals in multi-sports
events. It means the association needs a very capable person to
chair it," he said at the congress, which will end today.

"The new chairman must be able to maintain the athletes'
achievement in the SEA Games because we only won two golds in the
1995 Games," he added.

"I believe Subagyo has the capability to chair the association
and I personally support him."

Sutiyoso also said that the new chairman should come from the
military.

"It would be good for the organization if a military officer
is in command because shooting has to deal with weapons," he
said.

Subagyo has also been nominated as the new chairman of the
Badminton Association of Indonesia, which will stage its national
congress at Hotel Indonesia from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1.

Earlier this week, Sutiyoso said he would consider his
nomination to chair the association in the 1998/2001 period. But
he had indicated that he has been busy with his new job as the
capital's governor.

Sutiyoso was a deputy of the association's target division
from 1989 to 1993 and has been its executive director from 1993
to 1997.

The current chairman, Edi Sudrajat, who is also the minister
of defense, had also denied to chair the association for a third
time.

"I've chaired the association twice. I think it's better to
have a new chairman who is more energetic and more innovative,"
he said.

But some participants from branches outside of Java still
expected Edi to chair the association.

Grooming

Edi hoped the selected chairman would be able to continually
groom athletes to reach world achievements.

Meanwhile, Irham Jafar, a representative of the association's
Lampung branch, said that the new chairman must also pay
attention to grooming athletes outside of Java.

He said by having the same development program, there would
not be any gaps between athletes inside and outside of Java.

"The main problem is how to purchase the weapons because they
are very expensive. It's impossible for athletes to have the same
weapons as owned by athletes from Jakarta, West Java, Central
Java and East Java."

Twenty-two of the association's 27 provincial branches are
being represented at the congress, which was opened by National
Sports Council Chairman Wismoyo Arismunandar. (yan)