PSSI Holds Exco Meeting, Discusses Congressional Time And Accelerate Referee Tranformation

PSSI held a meeting of the PSSI Executive Committee (doc. PSSI).

PSSI held an Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday, March 3, 2024, to discuss the timing of the PSSI Congress and the acceleration of the transformation of Indonesian referees.

The results of the meeting decided that the PSSI Congress would be held on June 10, 2024. The discussion of the 2025 work program and PSSI financial audits became an agenda in the PSSI Congress.

Meanwhile, the Exco PSSI meeting by presenting the Deputy of the PSSI Referee Commission, Yoshimi Ogawa, focused on accelerating the transformation of Indonesian referees. One of them is the digitalization of referees.

"All referees are included in a system from England. All events or decisions taken by the referee are all stored in the system. So, the referee can learn from the incident."

"If there are clubs that feel aggrieved by the referee's decision, apart from the club being able to report the incident and ask for a challenge as well, later the referee's performance and the system will be seen," said PSSI General Chair Erick Thohir.

In addition to digitization, PSSI also plans to bring in foreign referees to lead the country's competition.

"We will also bring in referees next year, either from the Japanese League or the Premier League to lead the league for a month. So, more independently and there will be transfer of knowledge from the referees who come to Indonesia," said Erick.

Apart from the two important agendas of the Exco PSSI meeting, do not forget to also discuss setting a schedule for domestic competitions.

PT Liga Indonesia Baru, who was also present at the meeting, was asked by the federation to align the Indonesian league schedule with the Indonesian national team program.

This was done so that controversies such as the sudden postponement of Liga 1 in order to support the Indonesian national team would no longer be repeated.