PSSI's Reason For Involving Police To Investigate Attack Score Setting

JAKARTA - The All-Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) is still investigating the match fixing that occurred at the Liga 2 club, Serang Serang. After assigning punishment to the perpetrators at the club, PSSI is now reporting to the police because of their limitations in investigations.

"After the PSSI Disciplinary Committee decided on the punishment for the attacking players, we also followed up on this by reporting to the competent authorities, namely the National Police (Polda Metro Jaya)," said PSSI General Chair Mochamad Iriawan as quoted by VOI from the PSSI official website.

PSSI has indeed obtained the names of five match fixing perpetrators at the Perserang club and have been sentenced in the form of a ban on playing and a fine. Unfortunately, the main mastermind behind this fraud is still unknown.

PSSI's efforts to investigate the main perpetrators have also been limited. This is because according to Moch Iriawan the federation does not have the authority to summon and investigate individuals who are not from the 'football family'.

Moreover, PSSI also has technological limitations to be able to track secret numbers that do match fixing with players.

"We are doing this report so that we can find out in detail who the outside party contacted the player. Moreover, the outside party contacted using a private number," explained the PSSI Ketum.

Previously, it was known that match fixing in the Perserang camp was carried out by a player named Eka Dwi Susanto who then invited a number of his fellow players to commit fraud. At first, Eka admitted that he got a call from a private number asking him to carry out this action.

The use of a personal number is what makes PSSI limited in exploring the investigation to reveal the identity of the perpetrator. The police were then involved to be able to help track and identify the caller, because the police had a cyber unit that was considered competent in handling this case.