Do Not Want Indonesia To Be Only Spectators At The 2023 Basketball World Cup, Menpora Sentil Perbasi

The Minister of Youth and Sports Zainudin Amali (Photo: Kemenpora)

JAKARTA - Indonesia will host the 2023 Basketball World Cup with the Philippines and Japan. However, the Indonesian basketball national team did not necessarily get free tickets to appear at the event.

There are conditions that the Red and White squad must meet. To realize the dream of appearing in the 2023 World Cup, the Indonesian basketball team must qualify for the FIBA Asia Cup 2021 first. Certainly not an easy thing considering the competition will be very tight.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Zainudin Amali, has given a strong warning. The government does not want Indonesia to just be a spectator when holding the 2023 Basketball World Cup. He asked all related parties to form a quality national team to get tickets there.

"Don't let our national team not qualify for the Basketball World Cup because later we will only be the host. This is unfortunate,"

Minister of Youth and Sports, Zainudin Amali

According to the Golkar Party politician, coaching will be the key. Menpora hoped that young players would emerge who could become the backbone of the Garuda Team. The Ministry of Youth and Sports is currently finalizing a grand design for all sports, including basketball, so that youth development runs well.

Menpora then flicked the Indonesian Basketball Association (Perbasi) in forming the national team squad. The man from Gorontalo wants all processes to be carried out objectively. Of course, there should be no element of personal interest.

"For Perbasi, I hope to be as objective as possible in terms of recruitment for the next national teams," said the Menpora.

Perbasi through the National Team Agency has taken steps to improve to create a strong basketball national team. One of them is recruiting experienced trainer Rajko Toroman. Perbasi has also started selecting players to naturalize, namely Lester Prosper and Brandon Jawato.

Another step is to include the national team selection squad in the Indonesian Basketball Legaue (IBL) competition using the name Indonesia Patriots. There are 12 names who joined the team that Rajko raised.