Indonesian SEA Games Contingent Successfully Exceeding Jokowi's Target

Indonesian athletes get gold medals in Marathon (Instagram @ 2019seagamesph)

JAKARTA - Today, the Indonesian SEA Games contingent has successfully passed the medal target ordered by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). Indonesia is in second place in the SEA Games ranking with the acquisition of 203 medals.

Until 15:17 WIB, Indonesia managed to add 12 gold medals on the eighth day of the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines, Sunday, December 8. The total red and white contingent has collected 65 gold medals, 61 silver medals and 75 bronze medals.

Launching from Antara, this additional gold medal was donated from several competitive sports. Rowing sports, for example, bought three gold medals from the final numbers competed in Malawan Park, Subic, Philippines.

The number of medals from chess is still increasing. From men's speed chess numbers, Susanto Megaranto also paned for GOLD. This reliable chess player successfully dominated the top party by winning 4 wins and passing 3 draws from a total of 7 matches. # SEAGames2019 pic.twitter.com/luElOKCQ9C

- KEMENPORA RI (@KEMENPORA_RI) December 8, 2019

Then, the archery won by junior archery athlete Arif Pangestu, who was a team with two seniors, Hendra Purnama and Riau Ega Salsabila, defeated the trio of Malaysian archers Haziq Kamaruddin, Khairul Mohamad, Muhamad Zolkepeli in the men's team recurve number.

Indonesian contingent commander or Chef de Mission (CdM) for the 2019 SEA Games, Harry Warganegara in Manila said he would continue to encourage Indonesian athletes to continue to fight for medals

Harry asked every athlete to keep close ranks, and his party would also continue to escort every athlete when competing.

Previously, President Joko Widodo, during the release of the Indonesian Contingent at the 2019 SEA Games at the Bogor Presidential Palace, Wednesday (27/11), targeted the Indonesian contingent to occupy the top two in the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines.

Recap of medals at the 2019 SEA Games (Philippines 2019 SEA Games site)

Jokowi hopes that Indonesia's ranking at the 2019 SEA Games can increase from the previous SEA Games which was in fifth position.

The Indonesian contingent participated in 52 of the 56 sports that were competed in the 2019 SEA Games. The number of Indonesian athletes who participated in the SEA Games in the Philippines was 841 athletes accompanied by 256 coaches including officials.