Become A General Champion, Indonesia Sets A New Record At The 2024 Asean University Games

Indonesia at the ASEAN University Games 2024 (ANTARA/Naufal Ammar Imaduddin)

The best students representing Indonesia at the 2024 ASEAN University Games (AUG) managed to achieve the best results. Their struggle bore fruit with the title of overall champion.

The Indonesian contingent collected 126 gold, 97 silver and 71 bronze medals from various moving branches.

Chairman of the Indonesian Student Contingent Del Asri on the sidelines of closing the 2024 AUG at the Malang State University (UM), Saturday (6/7), is grateful because in addition to fulfilling the overall champion target, Indonesian athletes are also able to make history by recording new records. Alhamdulillah. As Chairman of the contingent, I thank you for the hard work of athletes, coaches and all parties. Especially the Directorate of Learning and Student Affairs of the Directorate General of Higher Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Belmawa Dikti), the National Achievement Center (Puspresnas), and the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Kemenpora)," said Del Asri as quoted by ANTARA.

Meanwhile, Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) Suharti appreciated the appearance of the Indonesian Student Contingent which has made proud achievements at 21st ASEAN University Games 2024 Surabaya-Malang. In addition, he said, the most important result in addition to medals in student sports competitions between Southeast Asian universities is cooperation between countries that can take place well.

"There is good news that we have reported throughout Indonesia and the world, that the AUG 2024 has been implemented well, medals have been obtained but more than that we can establish cooperation between athletes and academics from all over the ASEAN country," he said. Prof. Mohd Ruslim Mohammed stated that holding the 2024 AUG in Indonesia could be used as a benchmark for countries that will host in the next two years. "The first word I want to say is extraordinary, usually in organizing the AUG one university becomes the venue for all sports, but in Indonesia it can involve nine universities in two cities, namely Surabaya and Malang," he said.

Not only that, he said, in multieven sports competitions that are held every two years, usually 11 countries do not all participate in all the sports that are competed in, but in this event all of them participate. "AUG this time recorded history, where each sport was attended by delegates from 11 countries. Previously, only a few delegates participated in each sport, but now many are participating. This means that from the participation aspect, there has been an increase in the involvement of athletes, coaches or officials," he said.