Swimming officials to resign due to internal dispute

Swimming officials to resign due to internal dispute

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Swimming Federation (PRSI)
official in charge of athletes development, Patuan Simatupang,
said on Thursday that some officials wanted to resign from their
posts due to internal disputes.

"Some officials are too busy to change the organization and
replace certain incapable people from their posts, contrary to
the results of PRSI plenary meeting early this year," he said.

Patuan said the PRSI meeting had decided to stage the national
championships and the ASEAN age group championships in Bali in
May but the official in charge of competition, who was not
present at the meeting, declined the decision and wants to move
the events to Jakarta.

"The officials are Lisa Siregar and secretary general
Abdurrahim, who is always doubtful of taking action," said
Patuan, replying to the question of the officials' names.

Citing another example, Patuan said Lisa also did not tell the
truth about swimmer Wisnu Wardhana's shoulder injury. Lisa
reported to PRSI that Wisnu fell at his home while the truth was
Wisnu fell playing basketball.

Patuan sent the resignation letter to chairman Rahardi Ramelan
on Monday. Patuan will meet with official in charge of swimming
technical commission Gerald HP Item, business director Lukman
Niode, and official in charge of research and development
Kristiono Sumono on Friday to discuss on their resignations.

"Pak Rahardi also wants to resign as chairman due to his job
as visiting tutor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,"
he said.

Separately, Lukman said he still considered the matter as
rumor.

"I just heard from some friends that there were some people
who wanted to change PRSI officials. I consider this a disrespect
to the national plenary meeting result. It will also insult Pak
Rahardi as the chairman." (yan)