Liga 1 Completed In Less Than 5 Weeks, PT LIB Plans To Invite President Jokowi To Present The Champion Trophy

JAKARTA - The country's top caste football competition, Liga 1 will soon be completed in less than five weeks or at the end of March to be precise. Ahead of the release of the competition champions, PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) plans to invite President Joko Widodo to be present at the moment of awarding the trophy.

President Director of PT LIB, Akhmad Hadian Lukita said his party would try to invite Jokowi. However, the decision on whether or not to attend the President in the final party comes back to the decision of the number one person in Indonesia.

"Surely we invite (President Jokowi) to award the trophy (League 1 champion)," said Lukita when met on the sidelines of the inauguration of the PSSI Medical Center, Monday, March 14.

"The matter of coming or not is a matter of late," continued the director.

Lukita also said that his intention to invite President Jokowi was not only because of the momentum of awarding the championship trophy, but because the president was also a loyal spectator of Liga 1.

"He always watches Liga 1," Lukita added.

Regardless of PT LIB's intention to invite President Jokowi, the intense competition in the last weeks has made PT LIB as the operator of the competition think in such a way.

The reason is, even though it has entered the 31st week of 34 weeks, there are at least five teams that have the opportunity to win the title, namely Bali United, Persib, Bhayangkara FC, Arema FC, and Persebaya.

To deal with unexpected results, PT LIB has developed a strategy by preparing more than 1 trophy to be handed over to the winning team. Not only trophies, winners' podiums will also be on standby at three different stadiums where the last match was held.

"There must be a ceremony, we even prepared three replicas of the trophy. For example, there are three matches, because it is impossible to move the trophy," said Lukita.

"About that later there will only be 1 or 2 (prospective champions) that's a risk. We have also prepared three podiums, basically every week we will monitor who will be the champion," he explained.