What's Really Wrong with PSSI?

Tabanan (News Today) - The annual congress of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) will be opened on Friday night at exclusive Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort, Tanah Lot, Tabanan, Bali. The congress weighing on the national football issues seems as if disclosed to media.

Local journalists trying to get the information on the congress on Thursday were banned to enter the resort by security personnel firmly saying, "No notification on the congress."

Wayan Agus Purnomo, a Tempo journalist in Bali, said that he and other journalists planning to ask for the information and press identity cards for covering it from the committee of congress at the hotel were banned to enter the resort by security personnel eventhough they mentioned the reason of visit.

"Security personnel just said there was no notification on the congress and he banned us to enter the resort," said Wayan. He expressed his concern on PSSI's action seeming of restricting media to cover the congress.

Wayan admitted of trying to make a phone call with Nugraha Besoes on his cell phone to report it but the PSSI Secretary General did not take his call. Yan Daulaka, Bola sports tabloid correspondent, had the sort of circumstance. Yan Daulaka called Nugraha to get the confirmation on the press identity card. However, Nugraha just replied, " Just wait for the confirmation tommorow (today)."

When KOMPAS contacted him to ask about the trouble, Nugraha was reluctant to comment by stating his reason of being about to join a meeting. "Please wait. I am about to join a meeting," said Nugraha on Thursday night.

Participants

Participants of the congress have started to enter the venue since the day through the night yesterday. At the registration, participants were required to show invitations to the congress from PSSI, marred with mistakes and corrected in line with the record of participants based on the level of competition season.

Banners representating the regions of participants can be seen around the venue. One of the banners states," 100 percent supports for Football People. PSSI East Java regional representatives are solid. Not the others."

The congress is scheduled to be opened by Chief of PSSI Nurdin Halid at 7.00 p.m. on Friday. No agenda of activities for participants set the whole day today. Discussions on materials of the congress will be held on Saturday.

Source : kompas

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