Indonesia Ranked Second In The 2025 Serung World Championships

JAKARTA Indonesia managed to rank second in the final standings for medals in the 2025 Serung Jeram World Championship or IRF World Rafting Championship (WRC) which took place in Perak, Malaysia.

In this prestigious event, Indonesia managed to bring home five gold, 10 silver and seven bronze medals, just below the Czech Republic, which appeared dominant with a total of 14 gold, eight silver, and five bronze.

Deputy Chairperson I of the Executive Board of the Arung Jeram Indonesia Federation (PB FAJI), Amalia Yunita, said that this achievement further emphasized Indonesia's position as one of the great powers of flooding the world.

"With five golds, Indonesia proves that the dominance of medals in the World Rafting Championship does not only belong to European countries."

"The prediction of the late President of IRF Raffael Badminton in WRC 2007 in South Korea has now become a reality that one day Indonesia will become the rising star," he said.

Indonesia won a gold medal in the sprint number for the men's and women's junior categories, then the head-to-head of the men's junior category, the slave number for the women's category, and finally from the down river race for the men's junior category.

One of the biggest surprises in history for the Indonesian team came from the open women team who won gold in the most prestigious number. This number was previously almost always won by European teams or New Zealand.

"The open women team departed without a target because we realized how difficult it is to compete in this category, but the athletes proved their best capacity," said Amalia.

Men's achievements are no less striking. The men's junior team performed extraordinaryly with three gold and one silver. The dominance shows that Indonesia's strength at the junior level is increasingly promising and becomes an important foundation for the future of the national Serung sport.

Japan trailed in third place with three gold, one silver, and six bronze. In a row after that there were Canada (two gold, one silver, one bronze), New Zealand (two gold, four silver), United States (two gold, three bronze), Brazil (one gold, three silver), Great Britain (one gold, one silver), Costa Rika (one gold, one silver), and Norway (one gold, three bronze).