Badminton Will Change Squad For SEA Games 2025

Surono as Deputy for Sports Achievement Improvement at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, revealed the change in the badminton squad at the 2025 SEA Games (doc. Kemenpora).

The composition of the Indonesian badminton squad for the 2025 SEA Games will change in order to pursue the gold medal target as well as imitate the steps taken by Malaysia and Thailand.

Surono as Deputy for Sports Achievement Improvement at the Ministry of Youth and Sports said that this decision was made after his party and the review team met with PBSI a few days ago.

"Yesterday's badminton during a review there were also very significant developments, namely they will also field the best athletes," said Surono in Jakarta.

PBSI previously announced the squad for the biennial multi-pronged sporting event. However, many players who are sent are still young.

Some of them are Yohanes Saut Marcellyno, Pradka Bagas Shujiwo, Ni Kadek Dhinda Amartya Pratiwi, and Mutiara Ayu Puspitasari as well as the men's doubles duo Raymond Indra/Nikolaus Joaquin.

Surono said that the review team and PBSI had agreed to change the squad's composition so that it could match Malaysia and Thailand's hosts who sent their best composition.

"This is in the process of proposing a change, which is technically from a direct federation to KOI (NOC Indonesia)."

"We are also overseeing the existing administration, both from the federation and from KOI to re-registered to the 2025 SEA Games committee," he said.

PBSI has set a target of only one gold medal with the strength previously released. This hope lies with the women's singles Kusuma Wardani.

The target is likely to change if the composition of the squad can be replaced. If it is lowered, the names that have been Indonesia's mainstay can add gold to Indonesia.

Indonesia has set a target to finish in third place in the final standings of medals to repeat previous achievements at the 2023 Cambodian SEA Games.