Google Doodle Celebrate Robin Hood Indonesia's Birthday, Donald Pandiangan

Today's Google main page is decorated with Doodles celebrating Donald Pandiangan, (photo: google)

JAKARTA - Today's main Google page is decorated with Doodles celebrating Donald Pandiangan, an archer who is nicknamed Robin hood Indonesia and is now 77 years old.

Having the full name Donald Djatunas Pandiangan, he was born on December 12 in Sidikalang, North Sumatra in 1945, and has died since 2008.

Doodle shows the figure of Pandiangan smiling with a bright color and besides that there is a picture of him shooting.

During his lifetime, Pandiangan had coached an archery team that won his first Olympic silver medal in 1988.

He has won more than 20 gold medals for possession of his bows and arrows at the Southeast Asian Sports Festival (SEA Games), giving him the nickname Robin hood of Indonesia.

At first, Pandiangan aspired to become an engineer, but due to financial problems it prevented him from completing his studies. In the end, Pandiangan worked in a transportation company, where he received a gift that would change the course of his life, a set of archery.

Despite starting his sports career at the age of 25, Pandiangan fell in love with the sport and trained tirelessly.

Three years later, he won his first gold medal at the VIII National Sports Week (Indonesian National Sports Week) 1973 in Surabaya. Four years later, he broke the world record at the Recurve 70m number at the 1977 PON IX in Jakarta.

Pandiangan won gold many times between 1977 and 1987 at the SEA Games. In 1980, Pandiangan was at the peak of his career and almost competed in the Summer Olympics in Moscow, but was unable to attend due to Indonesian rules that boycotted the event.

A few years later, he began coaching the women's archery team for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Lilies Handayani, Nurfitriyana Saiman, and Kusuma Wardhani won the silver medal, the first in Indonesian history.