Regarding Doping Sanctions, WADA Highlights LADI Administrative Issues

Wakil Ketua LADI Rheza Maulana (VOI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Anti-Doping Agency (LADI) is still working to accelerate the elimination of sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The sanctions received by LADI are related to technical and administrative matters.

WADA imposed sanctions on LADI because it considered Indonesia to be in the status of a non-compliant country.

This is related to the planned 2021 doping test that has been submitted previously, the number of tests has not been fulfilled, and administrative problems related to institutions.

Deputy Chairperson of LADI, Rheza Maulana gave a comment on the progress of LADI's efforts to accelerate the abolition of sanctions. One of them is related to administrative matters that WADA mentioned in the point of non-compliance.

Reza said LADI was trying to speed up the process of completing their task. Regarding administration, Rheza said their target could be completed by the end of the year.

"For administrative matters, we hope that in the next one or two months we will be able to fulfill everything, including institutions. But it must also be supported by law and the process will not take a while," Rheza told VOI, Thursday.

The administrative problems experienced by LADI are known to be due to the leadership transition from the previous term of office. So that it makes some of their agendas do not go according to planning time.

But then Reza said that LADI had submitted a deadline to WADA to be able to finalize all that was pending.

"Because of the leadership transition, we have to allocate officers. Because in the field it must also be maximal," said Reza.

"We have also consulted with WADA to resolve them one by one and it is possible (according to WADA) as long as the timing is right," said Rheza.