PON Papua Contingent Flag Raising Ceremony Held Thursday

JAKARTA - The Papua National Sports Week (PB PON) Grand Committee will hold a flag-raising ceremony for all the contingents participating in the biggest sporting event in the country at the Lukas Enembe Stadium, Jayapura Regency, Thursday at 08:00 WIT.

The person in charge of the ceremony, Israil Ilolu, said that the Governor of Papua as well as the Chair of the Papua PON PB, Lukas Enembe, would attend the event along with the Daily Chair of the Papua PB PON Yunus Wonda and the Chair of the Papuan PB PON Contingent Inspector General Pol Mathius D. Fakhiri.

In addition, continued Israih Ilolu, the Regional Leadership Coordination Forum (Forkopimda) from provinces and districts/cities as well as the TNI, Polri, and Satpol PP were also present.

"Representatives from each contingent were also present at this flag-raising ceremony. We limited them to five people," Israil Ilolu told Antara on the sidelines of a clean rehearsal held at the Lukas Enembe Stadium, Wednesday.

The 20th edition of the quadrennial sporting event will be attended by 34 provinces throughout Indonesia. Each contingent sends the best athletes to compete in 37 sports. In addition, there are also 10 exhibition sports.

PON Papua will be officially opened by President Joko Widodo in the opening ceremony which will take place at the Lukas Enembe Stadium on October 2, 2021.

Despite opening this weekend, a number of sports have started and even held medal competitions.

Meanwhile, on the same occasion, the Daily Chair of PB PON Yunus Wonda said that so far the readiness and preparation for the biggest sporting event in the country was going well.

"Everything is 95 percent, the rest is just the implementation," Yunus Wonda told ANTARA.

"There are no significant obstacles. We hope that everything will go well in Jayapura City and Regency, Mimika Regency, and also Merauke Regency," Yunus Wonda added.