Ganjar Pranowo Wants A Routine NU Porseni Held For Asah Talenta Santri

Ganjar Pranowo during the closing ceremony of the NU. (IST)

SURAKARTA - Riuh applause echoed at the Sritex Arena Gymnasium in Surakarta when Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo took the podium for the closing of the Nahdlatul Ulama National Sports and Art Week (Porseni) in 2023, Saturday, January 21. Ganjar gave his speech, at the same time releasing the contingent's return from various provinces in Indonesia.

Also present at the event were National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, Deputy Governor of Central Java Taj Yasin Maimoen, Mayor of Surakarta Gibran Rakabuming Raka, and Deputy Rais Aam PBNU KH Anwar Iskandar. I'm sorry about the service and facilities may not be optimal. But the implementation of this Porseni is complete. I'm happy how the champions were very excited," said Ganjar.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the contingents among the students, Ganjar also asked the audience a question. "Of course, our next thought will be held in the next year. We vote. Five years, three years, two years, or one year," asked Ganjar, who was greeted by the majority of the answers for one year.

The closing of the 2023 NU Porseni was lively. There are various appearances such as choir, retaliatory music and zalpin dance, and no less cool is Arul Evansyah, the former vocalist of Power Metal who performed the song "Gebyar-gebyar".

On that occasion, the Governor of Central Java for the two periods appreciated the passing of the NU Porseni. However, he also responded to the "surprises" incident of participants staying at the Haji Donohudan Dormitory.

"Alhamdulillah, everything went smoothly and the report was that Mas Nusron Wahid (Chairman of the Committee) was quite interesting, the incident was due to sports, everything went well. Just one of them. It turns out that I and Gus Yasin have homework, Donohudan has detunya, earlier there was something that was chaotic. We will clean it up later," he explained.

In addition, according to Ganjar, Poseni NU is an event to hone and produce athletes' seeds from among students.

"But the point is that the achievements of students of students can be seen by the talents and talents of art sports. Moreover, all the branches that are contested are followed well. There are activities there that can be shown. So the next thing is how long this Porseni will be carried out so that then all NU students or students prepare themselves well and these are seeds for athletes in Indonesia," he said.

The 2023 National NU posseni took place from January 15-21, 2023, followed by 22 provinces by competing in four sports and three arts. East Java came out as the overall champion, followed by DKI Jakarta in second place and Central Java managed to occupy number three.