Surabaya hosts karate c'ship

JAKARTA (JP): More than 400 karateists from Indonesia's 27 provinces will kick and punch each other at a national championship from Aug. 24 to Aug. 27 in Surabaya.

"Provinces whose male karateists finish in the top eight and their female ones in the top four will be eligible to compete in all the karate events contested in the upcoming National Games," secretary-general of the Indonesian Karatedo Federation G.A. Pesik said in Surabaya yesterday.

Eligibility for the 14th National Games, slated for Sept. 9 to Sept. 20 in Jakarta, will be determined in the team kumite events for each gender. "Kumite event is the most effective way to measure how good each province has prepared its karateists," Pesik added. (arf)