JAKARTA - Indonesia Pingpong League (IPL) must be the barometer for the best table tennis players in the country.
This was stated by the General Chairperson of the IPL (Indonesia Pingpong League) Lieutenant General TNI Muhammad Saleh Mustafa and the Secretary General (Sekjen) of IPL Yon Mardiyono welcoming the implementation of the 2025 series 2 IPL Youth season which will take place in seven zones simultaneously, 4 July 6, 2025.
Muhammad Saleh Mustafa advised that our IPL belongs to us together, let's take care of it together and raise it together. This message was conveyed by Saleh Mustafa to welcome the extraordinary enthusiasm for the presence of a national table tennis professional competition whose performance has now entered its second season since it was rolled out last year.
This extraordinary enthusiasm can be seen from the increase in participants in the IPL Youth series 2 competition.
According to Saleh, IPL Youth as the new face that complements the IPL Senior competition for series 2 was followed by 139 clubs. This number increased far from 116 clubs in the first series, last April.
The IPL Youth is held simultaneously in seven zones covering the Sumatra (Palembang), Banten (Tangerang), Jakarta (Jakarta), West Java (Bandung), Central Java (Semarang), East Java (Surabaya), and Sulawesi (Makassar).
The 2025 IPL Youth competition will compete in the men's and women's team numbers for three age categories, namely the U-13, U-15, and U-18. These talented young athletes will strive to show their best abilities and achieve brilliant achievements in the national, even international arena.
With the increase in interest in IPL, especially at this Youth level, Saleh Mustafa is determined to continue this competition on an ongoing basis, programmed with good governance.
"Our shared IPL, let's take care of it together and increase it together. The extraordinary enthusiasm of table tennis people in the country is an extraordinary trust in the IPL. This is a big capital for us to continue this competition even better because competition is the main factor in increasing achievement," said Saleh, who has served as Inspector General of the TNI since July 2024.
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Saleh even emphasized that IPL implemented competition rules in accordance with those outlined by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and upholds the Olympic Charter (Olympic Charter). This is because IPL since June 27, 2025 has been officially accepted as a member of the ITTF.
"As members of the ITTF, of course we will carry out the ITTF agenda and rules. This international trust will open up opportunities for Indonesian table tennis to achieve world achievements. Let's rise together to give the best for the nation and state. We will fly the Red and White Flag again in international forums through ping pong," said the Commander of the 45th Army Strategic Reserve Command (Penkostrad).
For this reason, Saleh reminded, IPL must be the barometer for the best table tennis players starting from players, coaches, and coaches. For this reason, IPL needs to have good and accurate data bases on players, coaches and clubs so that they can be used as a reference.
With this data, the selection of players and coaches will be transparent, there will be no more favoritism or previously plotted. We want to remove the paradigm with data base. So everyone has the opportunity to achieve the best for the sake of the nation and state," he said with a smile.
Meanwhile, Yon Mardiyono said, with the addition of clubs taking part in the 2025th IPL Youth series 2, it was proven that this professional competition had won the trust of table tennis people in the country. Especially for the 2025 Senior IPL series 1 which was held in Bandung, last May there was also an increase in participants from 27 to 43 clubs.
"What is encouraging and certainly proud for us, all the clubs that take part meet the regulations for the requirements for IPL competition participants. So this is an extraordinary interest. A positive one for Indonesian table tennis is because there is more potential for young players to be monitored for future regeneration," said Yon.
According to Yon, the increasing number of clubs taking part in the IPL Youth is a good opportunity to find new players' nursery and regeneration. Because IPL continues to detect the potential of juniors in seven zones. Everything is included in the data base for players, coaches and clubs.
"In accordance with the message of the General Chairperson of Mr. Saleh, IPL must be the barometer of the best player, coach and coach of Indonesian table tennis. All have the opportunity to excel from each zone," said Yon, who is a former national player and younger brother of former national player Anton Suseno.
Yon added, the greater the interest in IPL will make achievements get better too. This is because IPL continues to roll continuously throughout the year so that every player is motivated to continue to prepare themselves.
IPL, said Yon, is now a new space, a new hope because the direction of coaching is clear.
This is what makes people grow to nurture clubs. With good competition, they will train better. Good competition produces good achievements too," he said.
Moreover, IPL, also has a continuation agenda for the ASEAN level. Therefore, from the series match for Senior IPL and Youth u, representatives will be taken to compete in the Jakarta grandfinals, which according to the plan will be held at the end of November after the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand. The top three sons of IPL Senior and Youth will be sent to the Asean level competition," said Yon.
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