Boxing Confidence Donates Gold Medal At SEA Games 2025

JAKARTA The boxing sport (sports) is confident that it can contribute a gold medal for Indonesia in the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand which will take place next month.

Secretary General (Sekjen) of the Indonesian Boxing Executive Board (Perbati), Hengky Silatang, hopes that boxing will meet the target of at least one gold medal from the biennial multi-pronged sporting event.

"Optimistics can meet the target of one gold medal in Thailand later. Hopefully, it can be more," said Hengky in Jakarta.

Boxers who will play in Thailand will be forged in training camp (TC) as well as training in Vietnam and Uzbekistan for three months each.

Hengky said that Uzbekistan's option as a test match was chosen because the country has recently become the world's amateur boxing tool.

"They won five gold medals at the 2024 Olympics. Because our relationship is quite good, children are given the opportunity to undergo training there," he said.

The competition for boxing in Thailand will be difficult for Indonesia. Apart from the Philippines and Vietnam, there is a host who has ambitions to make boxing as a gold barn.

The Indonesian boxing team for the 2025 SEA Games is dominated by new faces. Of the 12 boxers (five women and seven men) who entered the team, only four boxers had appeared at the SEA Games and Asian Games.

In the women's sector, the composition of the Indonesian boxing team is filled by Huswatun Hasanah (class 63 kg), fire at Tomatoala (class 48 kg), Israellah Saweho (class 50kg), Alfianita Manopo (class 54kg), and Nabila Maharani (class 57kg).

From the men's sector, Indonesia is strengthened by Dio Koebanu (48 kg class), Asriudin Tapalaola (60 kg class), Michael Mustika (80 kg class), Vicky Tahamil Jr (51 kg class), Flanuari Daud (54 kg class), Gill Mandagie (57 kg class), and Jekri Riwu (67 kg class).