Makassar Mayor Danny Pomanto Prepares IDR 300 Billion Budget For Sports Facilities

MAKASSAR - Makassar Mayor Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto (Danny Pomanto) stated that his party has prepared a budget of Rp. 300 billion to build sports facilities and infrastructure to support the production of outstanding athletes in the region.

"Sufficient sports facilities and infrastructure will produce outstanding athletes. I am sure that in the future there will be many great athletes from Makassar," he said in Makassar as reported by Antara, Saturday, March 19.

Danny Pomanto stated that attention to adequate sports facilities and infrastructure is a prerequisite for Makassar to become a world city.

"We are aware that the construction of sports facilities and infrastructure is quite large and we will support it to increase the achievements of Makassar athletes," he continued.

According to Danny Pomanto, the Makassar City Government is currently having difficulties in budgeting the sports sector, so he proposed a sports development collaboration between the Makassar KONI and the South Sulawesi KONI with the Makassar City Government and the South Sulawesi Provincial Government.

"Early childhood development is carried out by all sports, the city government is in charge of preparing competitions for all sports. Facilities and infrastructure are the affairs of the city government. Then we leave the achievement development to Makassar and South Sulawesi KONI. The stadium is managed by South Sulawesi, if the GOR is a matter for the city government. 90 billion rupiah," he said.

Meanwhile, the new chairman of KONI Makassar, Ahmad Susanto, said that he is committed to making Makassar a City of Sport.

"To become Makassar City of Sport, there are 5 missions that we must carry out as a lifestyle to exercise to achieve achievements, including Sport Solution, One Student One Sport, Sport Achievment (achievement) and finally there is Sport Destination," he explained.