Ksatria Bengawan Solo Becomes A New Contestant For IBL 2024

JAKARTA The Bengawan Solo Ksatria basketball club will appear as a new contestant in the 2024 Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) competition.

Knight is present as the pride of basketball people in Solo in particular and Central Java in general. They are here to continue and at the same time return Solo as a basketball city as when they had a big team Bhinneka Solo.

The President of the Bengawan Solo Ksatria Club, Yakup Putra Hasibuan, said that the phenomenon of growth in basketball in Solo has been evenly distributed in various sectors. The rise of the basketball world in Solo is initiated by the Solo League.

"We are proud to be born and raised in Solo. We have focused all of the activities of this team in Solo. We use the Sritex Arena as our homebase," he was quoted as saying on the IBL website.

Ksatria Bengawan Solo is optimistic that he can talk a lot in his first season. They set a target to enter the most prestigious basketball competition playoffs in Indonesia.

Currently, a number of names of players have agreed to join. The coach and the coaching staff are also preparing the composition of the best team.

Yakup said that Ksatria has a plan to attract talented basketball players from Solo in terms of coaching. You see, basketball competition in Solo is going very well, professional, and tiered from elementary schools (SD) to even veterans.

"Hopefully the presence of Ksatria Bengawan Solo can have a good impact on the city of Solo, make the people of Solo proud, and make the Solo City Government program a success, namely sport tourism," he said.

Yakup Putra Hasibuan as President of Ksatria Bengawan Solo will collaborate with Todotua Pasaribu and Andrian Jahjamalik as founders.

Meanwhile, Andra R. Pasaribu as commissioner and Alvin Reynaldi Setiawan as Vice President of Business.

The Vice President of Operation was held by Bagus Andriaan John who is also the Head of the Solo City Government of Perbasi.

Solo City has in the last three seasons represented by West Bandit Solo. However, this club some time ago returned their license to IBL due to problems that have occurred, especially since the end of the 2023 season.