Wushu Trying To Maintain The General Champion Status Of SEA Games

JAKARTA The wushu sports (sports) will try their best to maintain the status of the overall SEA Games champion in the upcoming edition in Thailand at the end of this year.

The 2025 Thailand SEA Games are scheduled to take place from 9-20 December 2025 in three major cities, namely Bangkok, Chonburi, and Songkhla. Wushu is one of the sports contested in the biennial event.

Secretary General of the Indonesian Wushu Executive Board (PB WI), Ngatino, ensured that Indonesia would appear in all numbers in accordance with the quota set by the organizing committee and try to get the best results.

"The target is of course the best even though we know the number prepared is not Indonesia's mainstay, which used to appoint us as overall champions. However, we are not pessimistic, we must remain optimistic," he said.

In the previous SEA Games in 2023 which took place in Cambodia, Indonesia managed to get the status of overall champion after collecting six gold medals, six silver medals, and two bronze medals.

Ngatino said that his party would continue to strive to prepare athletes as well as possible at the national training center (pelatnas) which was continuously carried out.

"Don't be nurtured just for time, but it must be sustainable because other countries are the same way. If we don't prepare continuously, we will always be left behind," he said.

The Indonesian wushu national team has just won one gold medal, two silver medals, and three bronze medals from the 2025 Wushu World Championship which took place in Brazil from 31 August to 7 September 2025.

The only gold medal was obtained by Seraf Naro Siregar in the men's daoshu number. Meanwhile, Patricia Geraldine won silver from the women's qiangshu number and Edgar Xavier Marvelo/Ahmad Ghifari Fuaiz/Seraf Naro Siregar from the men's team dual.

Then three bronze medals were won by Edgar Xavier Marvelo from the men's changquan number, Fereddy Sinaga on the men's 52 kilograms class sanda, and Tariqa Dea Florentina on the women's 52 kilograms sanda.

Athletes who appear in the event will immediately undergo national training in order to face the 2025 Thailand SEA Games, 2025 Asian Youth Games Bahrain, 2025 Islamic Solidarity Saudi Arabia 2025, and 2026 Asian Games Nagoya.