JAKARTA - Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Dito Ariotedjo encourages the sport of fencing so that his athletes can get tickets to qualify for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
Dito said that he had asked the Executive Board of the All-Indonesian Budget Association (PB Ikasi) to prepare a roadmap in order to get a supporting budget from the Government for this ambitious target.
"We know that this fencing is a sport that I think is for the Olympics and the world. It's like a gamenastic, so it's mandatory. Developed and developing countries compete on average," he said.
Indonesia next month will act as host of the Asian Fencing Championships or the 2025 Asian Budget Championships. The event will take place at The Westin Resort Nusa Dua on 17-23 June 2025.
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The 2025 Asian Budget Championships will reportedly be attended by more than 400 athletes. Indonesia will field a total of 25 athletes in the event to be participated in by the athletes who won the 2024 Paris Olympics gold medal.
Dito said that Indonesia's participation in hosting the Asian Championship was a manifestation of the budgeting commitment so that it could achieve the desired target.
"We haven't hosted the Asian Championship for a long time and this is a symbol that in the future we want this budget to be able to return to work at the Olympics," he said.
Meanwhile, Indonesia's budget has been absent from the Olympics since 2012 in London. At that time, the only athlete who left there was Diah Permatasari.
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