YOGYAKARTA FIBA World Cup 2023 will be held in Indonesia from August 25 to September 3. One of the biggest international basketball events will make Indonesia Arena a venue. However, not many people know Indonesia Arena.
The following article will provide information about the Indonesia Arena, a place that will be used at the 2023 FIBA World Cup world basketball event.
Indonesia Arena is one of Indonesia's indoor stadiums. This stadium is located in the Gelora Bung Karno sports complex, Senayan, Jakarta.
On the Indonesia.go.id website, it is stated that the Indonesia Arena stadium was built by the production house Alien Design Consultant, Aboday, and Svein Studio. Meanwhile, the stadium contractors are BUMN Karya, namely PT Penta, PT Nindya Karya, and PT Adhi Karya.
Indonesia Arena is built on land with an area of 30,270 m2. Indonesia Arena itself will be built starting December 2021 and inaugurated in July 2023.
The Indonesia Arena is built with five floors, with one main field and two fields for training. In addition, the Indonesia Arena is equipped with a dressing room for players, a jacuzi pool, toilets for spectators, a rinse room for players, VVIP stands, media spaces and press conferences, elevators, and escalators.
Tier 2-3 Indonesia Arena stands are made permanent, tier 1 is equipped with telescopic tribune technology so that it can be folded automatically. With this technology, the audience seats can be adjusted easily according to the area of the field.
The renovations carried out at the Indonesia Arena made the audience capacity 13,500 people. However, the field became wider, which was originally 77 meters x 47 meters long 80-85 meters and 46-55 meters wide.
Currently, Indonesia Arena is being prepared to welcome the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup which will be held in August 2023. The match was attended by 32 countries.
Welcoming the match, FIBA World Cup 2023 Executive Director David Crocker visited Indonesia to check last July. According to him, there were no shortcomings in the place.
"Although I'm trying to find it, I don't think I will find any flaws here. This is a completely new, world-class stadium," said David Crocker at the Indonesia Arena GBK Jakarta on Tuesday, July 11, quoted from Antara.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has also inaugurated the Indonesian Arena sports building on Monday, August 7. He gave his appreciation for infrastructure development which he said could be built in a relatively fast time.
"[Indonesia Arena] was built at a cost of IDR 640 billion. This development for 18 months, was very fast," he said, quoted from the Setkab website.
President Jokowi said the Indonesia Arena could not only be used for sporting events but also for holding concerts.
"So now those who want to have a concert please register immediately, because I'm sure this will be a lot, it will be used more for concerts. But I prefer to use it for sports, but concerts are also important because I'm also happy," he said.
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