The National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force Team Holds Coordination Meeting With The Ministry Of Youth And Sports

JAKARTA - Secretary of the Minister of Youth and Sports Gatot S Dewobroto fulfilled the invitation to the coordination meeting (Rakor) for the Antimafia Football Task Force at the Polda Metro Jaya Building, Tuesday, February 18. This aims to share information and experiences in helping the handling of scoring.

The coordination meeting was led directly by Karo Provos Police Headquarters Brig. Gen. Pol. Drs. Hendro Pandowo, M.Si. as the Head of the National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force and was attended by all leaders and members of the task force. Apart from being a follow-up to the meeting of the National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force with the Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Zainudin Amali on February 10, this coordination meeting was also to deepen various information and experiences in handling eradication of scoring arrangements.

During the meeting, the Menpora strongly supported the existence of the National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force, and hoped to be more optimal in working, especially in facing the holding of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2021.

In his introduction, the Head of Volume III of the Police Anti-Mafia Ball Task Force explained about the objectives of the Coordination Meeting, an evaluation of the performance of the Police Anti-Mafia Ball Task Force Volume I and II. 7yy Later, the Police Antimafia Ball Task Force will also invite other parties who, in essence, can be invited to coordinate in order to support the performance of the National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force.

Meanwhile, the Sesmenpora explained about the experience of being with Team-9 in early 2015 in participating in discussing the problem of preventing scoring, which at that time was thought to have been rampant for a long time and then became one of the reasons for the decision to freeze PSSI.

Kemenpora really hopes that the National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force can be more thorough in overcoming the soccer mafia without Kemenpora having to freeze PSSI, because so far the PSSI Management is cooperative with Kemenpora and Polri in overcoming the soccer mafia although it must continue.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports also asked the National Police Ball Antimafia Task Force to take lessons from how several countries deal with soccer mafia, as experienced by Sesmenpora (at that time as Deputy 5 of the Ministry of Youth and Sports) when they visited the Spanish La Liga office at the end of May 2015 (during the fall. FIFA sanctions to PSSI).

"In essence, there is no need to hesitate in synergizing with the Government, Federation, Match Operators and every club to be bound by a joint integrity pact without having to interfere with the independence of PSSI, because if it is disturbed, it could be considered to have violated the FIFA Statute," said Gatot S Dewobroto in a statement. written received by the editorial staff.

And most importantly, continued Gatot, PSSI was asked to be consistent with the FIFA Statute, especially regarding the rights, obligations and limitations of club ownership.