JAKARTA - Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Dito Ariotedjo ensured that West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) would remain the host of the 2028 National Sports Week (PON).
Dito conveyed this after seeing the regional success holding the VIII 2025 National Community Sports Festival (Fornas) which took place on July 26-1 August 2025.
"God willing, PON 2028 will remain in West Nusa Tenggara. We will support facilities and others," said Dito in his remarks at the closing ceremony of Fornas VIII on Friday, August 1, 2025 night.
The VIII National Community Sports Festival (FORNAS) in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) was officially closed by Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
This year the Fornas VIII was recorded to be attended by approximately 48 thousand participants from all over Indonesia. The total sporting event involved as many as 74 Organizational Sports Mains (Inorga).
NTB Governor Lalu Muhammad Iqbal said that the experience of managing Fornas VIII with preparation time of approximately three months will be an extraordinary learning process for them to welcome PON.
"Thank you for the presence of Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka. West Nusa Tenggara is ready to accept the mandate of PON 2028," he said.
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West Nusa Tenggara will host PON 2028 together with East Nusa Tenggara. The two provinces were determined to hold this event through the Extraordinary National Sports Conference or the Central KONI Musornaslub in 2022.
PON XXII in 2028, which is named PON Nusa Tenggara, according to the agreement between the two provinces, will compete in 54 sports. Each province will hold 27 sports.
The sports that will be competed in NTB include aerosports, fencing, athletics, bicycle racing, riding, motors, basketball, volleyball, dancessal, golf, hockey, judo, karate, kickboxing, kurash, shooting, muaythai, archery, rock climbing, petanque, surfing, diving, rollerblading, soft tennis, fighting degrees, and triathlon.
The sports that will be contested in NTT are weightlifting, aquatics, billiards, handball, bodybuilding, bridge, badminton, chess, cricket, rowing, e-sports, gateball, wrestling, hapkido, screen, pencak silat, rugby, soccer, soccer takraw, kempo, taekwondo, court tennis, table tennis, boxing, and wushu.
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