SenengMinton Festival 2024 Series II Enlivened By 500 Students

SenengMinton Festival 2024 Series II (doc. Djarum).

JAKARTA The SenengMinton 2024 Series II Festival was attended by 360 students in grades 1 to class 3 from 24 elementary schools (SD) and Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) in Kudus City as well as 140 participants from PAUD and TK.

The second series of events held by the PBSI Kudus Regency Management (Pengkab) together with the Djarum Foundation Sports Service took place on December 14 and 15, 2024 at GOR Djarum, Jati, Kudus, Central Java.

Chairman of the PBSI Kudus Regency and the Chairperson of the SenengMinton 2024 Series II Festival, Yuni Kartika, said that this event aims to control popularity and foster love and pleasure in badminton at the early age level.

"Hopefully in the future badminton will become more popular and become a fun activity for students. From there, I hope that talented seeds will emerge," Yuni said in a statement.

There are a total of seven types of competitions in this second series, namely service to target, shuttle run, pyramid shuttlecock, throwing the shuttlecock, zig zag run, run, and drive target.

In each of the dexterity tests, each school is represented by three teams filled with five members. The distribution consists of three male students and two female students.

Yuni explained that there are differences in games with the previous series. In this second series, each team must complete a race to continue their journey to the next game.

"In addition, now it is also held for two days, while previously it was only one day. This is to increase the excitement and variation so that the participants involved feel free to get bored," he said.

The initiation of the SenengMinton Festival began in June 2023 during the coaching clinic session for elementary and MI teachers conducted by the PBSI Kudus Regency Government.

The coaching clinic is held with the aim that schools that are participants open badminton extracurricular for their students.

Representative of the Djarum Foundation Sports Service, Budi Darmawan, said that the SenengMinton Festival 2024 Series II was part of a step to continue the baton of Indonesian badminton glory.

"We welcome the steps taken by the Kudus PBSI Regency Government in an effort to promote badminton from the grassroots. We are also grateful for the support from parents and the school," said Budi.

In this second series, MI NU Imaduddin Hadiwarno managed to defend the title. They successfully won two categories at once, namely Class 2 and Class 3.

List Of Winners Of The SenengMinton 2024 Series 2 Festival

Class 1

Champion: SD Unggulan Muslimat NU Kudus

Runner-up: MI Miftahul Ulum

Semifinalist: MI Islamic Education And MI Al Tanbih

Class 2

Champion: MI NU Imaduddin Hadiwarno

Runner-up: MI Baitul Mukminin

Semifinalist: MI Kudus Country And MI Islamic Education

Class 3

Champion : MI NU Imaduddin Hadiwarno

Runner-up: SD AD Kudus

Semifinalist: MI Kudus And MI Muhammadiyah Bae

Supporter Competition

Champion: MI Islamic Education

Runner-up: SD 1 Pasuhan Kidul

Semifinalist: MI NU Nurus Shofa