Still Coordinating With KONI About SK Pon XXI 2024, Menpora: If KONI Is Ready, We Will Immediately Issue

JAKARTA - The XXI 2024 National Sports Week (PON) will be held in two regions in the western tip of Indonesia. The provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra will co-host the four-year national sports week.

The Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Zainudin said the government had not issued a Decree (SK) regarding the co-host at PON XXI 2024. He revealed that currently it is still coordinating with the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI).

This was conveyed by Menpora Zainudin Amali when receiving the Acting Governor of Aceh, Nova Iriansyah, at the Kemenpora Building, Thursday (8/10/2020). He appreciated the Acting Governor of Aceh who was so enthusiastic about preparing Aceh as the host of PON 2024 later.

"If KONI is ready we will immediately issue a decree. I also asked to assign one person to communicate," said the Menpora.

Not only that, the Menpora also asked Central KONI to immediately submit planning and preparation for the host of PON XXI 2024 even though PON 2020 has not yet been held. "So that we can process it quickly," he said.

In fact, the implementation of PON in two regions has been regulated in PP Number 7 of 2020 Article 12 paragraph 2. In the PP, it is explained that the prospective host for the implementation of PON can be carried out by one provincial government or a combination of provincial governments.

Acting Governor of Aceh said that Aceh wanted to prepare itself well to host PON XXI 2024. For that, everything was done as early as possible.

"Including regarding the budget that we will determine in 2021. Therefore, we want the SK (PON XXI 2024) to come out," said Nova Iriansyah.