Erick Thohir's Mission Brings Indonesia To Become A Winning Nation Via Satria Muda

Erick Thohir. (Photo: Special)

JAKARTA - The Satria Muda basketball team held a championship celebration as well as a reunion of their team on Saturday, December 3. Present at the event were the owners of Satria Muda who is also Minister of BUMN Erick Thohir. Erick built Satria Muda since the late 1990s. Before Erick was taken, Satria Muda was the bottom-ranked team and now the team is the best team in the history of Indonesian basketball.

Erick also explained the secret behind his efforts to build Satria Muda. According to Erick, his main mission is to shape the character and spirit of the fighter. From the start, Erick wanted Satria Muda to be as his name was to form young people who had the winning soul like a chivalrous.

"Satria Muda is not just an achievement, but our efforts to build the character of a nation, the character of the younger generation who is getting better. Moreover, we are in a very high competition era today," said Erick.

Erick believes that with the winning spirit, young Indonesians will be able to compete with any country. By forming a tough character, Satria Muda came from a team of caretakers who never won the title, becoming a team that won 12 national titles. The 12 titles were won since Erick took over the team.

Erick is optimistic that this winning mentality will also bring Indonesia to win competition with other countries. For example, the success of the Indonesian basketball team in eradicating the dominance of the Philippine basketball team at the Sea Games. Even though the Philippines has a world-class basketball team and has dominated Southeast Asian basketball for more than 30 years. With the majority of Satria Muda players, the Indonesian national team was also able to beat the Philippines at the Sea Games 2022.

"In the most important sport is character. We saw Korea in yesterday's world football trophy, in the last minute it was because of the fighting spirit character. Likewise Japan. This is what we must imitate," said Erick.

With fighting spirit and winning character, Erick believes that Indonesia will become the main strength of the world's country by 2045. "We have the top four world economic powers by 2045," said Erick.