JAKARTA The Sports Service Djarum Foundation and PB Djarum again held the 2025 PB Djarum General Audition. Registration has also been opened.
The audition is scheduled to take place from September 8 to 12, 2025 at GOR Djarum Jati, Kudus, Central Java. A total of three male and female age groups are targeted in this year's edition of the audition.
The three age groups consist of U-11 (participants aged 810 years or born 20152017), KU-11 (participants aged 11 years or born in 2014), and KU-12 (participants aged 12 years or born in 2013).
Djarum Foundation's Director of Sports Bakti Program who is also the Chair of PB Djarum, Yoppy Rosimin, said that Public Audition is not just a process of searching for talented badminton seeds, but also an important part of regeneration.
"We want the spirit and love of badminton in Indonesia to continue to shine. We hope that through this audition, super quality athletes will be born to improve the glory of Indonesian badminton," said Yoppy.
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The online registration period for the selection of talented badminton seeds to win the Badminton Scholarship Djarum from the Djarum Foundation Sports Service is still open until August 31, 2025 at 24.00 WIB.
Applicants have reached 333 participants as of July 3, 2025 at 12.00 WIB. Of these, the most registrants are in the men's U-11 group which has reached 105 participants.
Head of the PB Djarum 2025 Public Audit Talent Search Team, Sigit Budiarto, said that this year's General Audition selection process was rigorously designed to attract quality athletes according to the criteria determined by PB Djarum.
"We are trying to catch seeds that are talented with super, both technical and non-technical. From a technical point of view, of course, those who already have a good impact and footwork basis. Meanwhile, non-technically, we see that from the potential or talent and mentality are balanced with fighting power," said Sigit.
Dikomandoi Sigit Budiarto, Tim Pencari Talent nanti diisi oleh jajaran pb Djarum yang akan dipimpin oleh Fung Permadi sebagai Koordinator Tim Pencari Talent Atlet Putra dan Yuni Kartika sebagai Koordinator Tim Pencari Talent Atlet Putri.
In addition, there were also a number of Indonesian badminton legends who participated in monitoring the talents of PB Djarum 2025 public audition participants since the first day, such as Hendrawan, Aryono Miranat, Liliyana Natsir, Tontowi Ahmad, Lius Pongoh, Hariyanto Arbi, Richard Mainaky, and Maria Kristin.
Fung Permadi said that the three age groups targeted in this year's auditions aim to regenerate senior athletes in each sector.
Regarding the criteria, what Fung and the ranks of the Talent Search Team for the men's participants were feeling touch.
"PB Djarum strives so that every year birth has coating players who have the potential to become world players," said Fung.
Meanwhile, the Coordinator of the Women's Athlete Talent Finding Team, Yuni Kartika, revealed that the athletes targeted by the women's sector of PB Djarum in this year's audition mainly have an ideal posture.
The 1994 Uber Cup winner considers that these elements are crucial in order to be able to compete with world women's athletes who are quite reliable in posture, in addition to techniques.
"Meanwhile, other aspects that become an assessment are of course their talents, mentality, and skills when competing. So, posture is highly considered, unless the athlete has a very special talent," said Yuni.
The selection series for PB Djarum 2025 begins with the screening phase which adopts a match with a knockout system of 1 game to 21st points (without deduction/setting).
The next stage is the tournament stage. For the men's category, Super Tickets are given to semifinalists.
Meanwhile, in the women's category, the Super Ticket winners who walked to the quarantine stage were the finalists in the tournament round.
Then, the quarantine stage is held for four weeks (September 13 to October 11, 2025) with two elimination phases, which aim to see the potential and mentality of athletes.
Those who qualify at the quarantine stage will receive a Badminton Scholarship Djarum and join PB Djarum.
Untuk mengikuti Audisi Umum PB Djarum 2025, para calon peserta dapat mendaftarkan diri secara daring melalui laman https://pbdjarum.org/klub/beasiswa-bulutangkis yang telah dibuka mulai 20 Juni 2025.
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