Indonesia Participates In Offering To Host FIBA World Cup U-19 2027

JAKARTA Indonesia will certainly participate in offering to host the U-19 Basketball World Championship or the U-19 FIBA World Cup in 2027.

This was conveyed by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Dito Ariotedjo, after an audience with a member of the FIBA Central Board, Ingo Weiss, in Jakarta, Thursday, May 2, 2024, at noon.

Dito said that during the hearing FIBA requested that Indonesia must participate in offering to host the prestigious age group event.

"We welcome it and I have told FIBA and Perbasi that Indonesia will definitely follow the bidding," said Dito in the lobby of the Ministry of Youth and Sports to the media crew.

The push from FIBA cannot be separated from Indonesia's success in holding the FIBA Basketball World Championship in 2023. At that time, Indonesia was the host with the Philippines and Japan.

FIBA assessed that holding the FIBA World Cup 2023 in Indonesia at that time was the best. The warm welcome from the community for the event became a plus for Indonesia.

"We feel an extraordinary atmosphere for basketball. We meet a lot of people who are enthusiastic about basketball, everyone really likes basketball here," said Ingo.

Hosts of the FIBA World Cup U-19 can automatically immediately participate in the tournament. This is different from the senior category which has to go through the qualifying round first.

In addition, there is no hosting fee that Indonesia needs to pay if it becomes the host. However, Indonesia still has an obligation in the management and management of the organizing committee.

The General Chairperson (Ketum) of PP Perbasi, Danny Kosasih, assessed that FIBA's trust in choosing Indonesia as a candidate to participate in the FIBA World Cup U-19 host bidding should be welcomed.

"So, Perbasi must immediately prepare a team to go there, if indeed the U-19 World Championship will be held in Indonesia," said Danny.

In addition to discussing the U-19 World Championships, FIBA's presence to Indonesia is also related to the international basketball master plan to open an office in Jakarta.

The existence of offices in Indonesia will automatically help Perbasi develop national basketball. Especially improving the quality of the human resources of coaches, referees, and coaching of early childhood athletes.