Try Sutrisno to open first sports congress
Try Sutrisno to open first sports congress
JAKARTA (JP): Vice President Try Sutrisno is scheduled to open
the first National Sports Congress and the National Coordinating
Meeting on Youth Affairs and Sports, organized by the office of
the state minister of youth affairs and sports in cooperation
with the National Sports Council and the Ministry of Education
and Culture.
Imam Suyudi, the assistant to the state minister and member of
the organizing committee for the conference, said yesterday the
conference will take place at Hotel Indonesia from Feb. 25 to
Feb. 28.
The conference will discuss the possibility of Indonesia
hosting the Asian Games in 2006 and the Olympics in 2008.
Imam said the sixth five-year state plan's targets are to win
the overall title at the 19th SEA Games, slated for Oct. 11 to
Oct. 19 here this year, improve the country's rankings at the
Asian Games and win more gold medals at the Olympics.
The conference will also discuss the development of sports in
the country since the beginning of the New Order.
"From the total of more than 30 sports organizations that we
have, only the Badminton Association of Indonesia has its own way
of earning its money for developing athletes. We'll make the
organization our first priority at the conference," Imam said.
Imam said the government is helping the Indonesian Track and
Field Association to build another synthetic-track stadium in
Ragunan, South Jakarta to boost the sport's development.
"So far, Malaysia's athletes have always performed better. If
we have more facilities with better equipment to groom our
athletes, I believe the results will be better," he said.
Imam said the conference will also invite the Association of
Indonesian Advertising Companies to find the best way of
attracting more people to watch sport events.
Among those scheduled to participate in the conference will be
experts, officials of each sports organization, the staff of 27
provinces' council branches and several universities. (yan)