PABBSI Will Be Disbanded, Management Of 3 Sports Branches Will Be Separated

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Weightlifting, Weightlifting and Bodybuilding Association (PABBSI) will be dissolved. The dissolution will be carried out by the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) in August. What's wrong?

Even though they are disbanded, administrators of the branches of weightlifting, weight lifting and bodybuilding will remain. Later, the management of these three branches will be separated. This is in accordance with the rules of the World Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

So, in the future there will be the Indonesian Weightlifting Association (PABSI), the Indonesian Weightlifting Association (Pabersi) and the Indonesian Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (PBFI). For PABSI will be chaired by Rosan P Roeslani. Meanwhile Pabersi is chaired by Irwan Ali and PBFI is led by Ana Maria.

The separation of the parent organization of the three sports will be officially announced at the National Working Meeting (Rakernas) of the Central KONI. The three of them will immediately be appointed members of the KONI.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of PB PABBSI, Joko Pramono said that his party must follow international regulations. This has also been agreed upon by all management in the PB PABBSI Extraordinary National Conference (Munaslub), December 2019.

"We have prepared the deeds of establishment of the three sports and have been registered with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Depkumham) as a sports organization," said Joko.

Previously, in the international world, the three sports were members of the IWF. However, then the three sports have their own federations. The weightlifting sport is held by IWF, bodybuilding is managed by WBPF, while IPF is for heavy lifting.

It is hoped that the separation of the three parent sports will not interfere with the athletes' preparation. As is known, there are a number of international events that will be faced, namely the Tokyo Olympics and the 2021 SEA Games.