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Nine venues for the 20th National Sports Week (PON) will be inaugurated on 20 October. The inauguration is an indicator of Papua's readiness to hold this multi-course sporting event.

These venues are outdoor shooting fields, softball and baseball fields at Cendrawasi and Auri Sentani Universities, GOR STT GIDI, Papua Bangkit Stadium which changed its name to Lukas Enembe Stadium, aquatic venue, Istora, indoor shooting, volleyball, tennis court, and futsal venue in Mimika Regency.

Acting Head of the Papua Tourism and Sports Office, Alexander K.Y Kapisa, on the National Sports Week website said that according to the plan, the 9 venues would be inaugurated by Governor of Papua, Lukas Enembe. In addition, with the venue being ready for the match, the overall infrastructure for the venue construction is 100 percent ready. Currently, the Ministry of Public Development and Public Housing is just finishing the area arrangement.

Meanwhile, the inauguration of the Papua National Sports Week venue will be carried out with strict health protocols whose plans are marked by a football match between the Papua National Sports Week Team against Persipura Jayapura. The goal is that the activities to be centered on the Papua Bangkit Stadium, which will change its name to be Lukas Enembe Stadium, will not have a new cluster of Corona spread.

Papua National Sports Week will take place in October 2021. Initially, this event was scheduled from October 20 to November 2 this year, but it had to be withdrawn due to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. The multi-course activity will compete in 37 sports, 56 disciplines, and 679 competition numbers.

Four young Karateka from North Sulawesi won gold medals at the 2020 Asia Online Virtual Kata Karate Championship held in the Philippines. This was said by Coach of the Ascke Benu Karate Team in Manado on Tuesday. The four Karateka are Aileen Mardjuki in the female level novice belt white gold medal class, Jenifer Gigir advance belt brown 10 years old gold medal, Kiara Tololiu female intermediate belt blue 9 years old gold medal, and Abigael Thomas in the female advance belt brown 11 years’ class old gold medal. Furthermore, Ascke said that his side would continue to provide guidance to these young Karateka to face other championships.

Josh Tiesto Tanto and Allysa Amelia, who are the mainstay athletes of Sasana Wushu Rajawali Sakti from North Jakarta, won gold medals for the men's and women's Nan Gun Junior B numbers in the 2020 Virtual Wushu Championship, specifically for Taolu. In the championship which took place at Pa Hoa School Tangerang, Banten, Wednesday (14/10), Josh won the title after posting 9.11 points. The silver was won by Muhammad Naufal Aryasatya Ardhani (Wushu Garuda Jember) with 8.98 points, and the bronze medal was won by Josh's colleague Richard Albert Gunawan with 8.95 points.

In the women's sector, Allysa won a gold medal with 8.98 points. Aqila Ghaida (Wushu Lima Benua Malang) won the silver medal with 8.93 points, and the bronze medal was won by Angelina Michele (Yesanis Surabaya) with 8.91 points. With the addition of two gold medals at the inaugural virtual tournament held by the Executive Board of Wushu Indonesia, Rajawali Sakti North Jakarta continues to lead the provisional standings by collecting seven gold, three silver, and four bronze medals. The second position is occupied by Yesamos Surabaya with five gold, six silver, and three bronze medals. This was followed by Bandung Taiji Sport in third place with three gold, four silver, and one bronze medals. Garuda Jember is in fourth place with three gold and silver, and four bronze medals respectively.

The EVOS E-sports team along with RRQ Hades and ONIC Olympus were selected to represent Indonesia at the Free Fire Continental Series 2020: Asia (FFMC) which is scheduled to take place in November. The ticket was obtained after the three teams occupied the best three positions in the 2020 Fall Free Fire Indonesia Masters (FFIM) Grand Final on Sunday (Oct 11). The title was won by EVOS E-sports after defeating 11 other teams in the grand final.

In a written statement received in Jakarta on Monday (12/10), the team with the white tiger logo managed to rank first in the standings by collecting a total of 142 points, which is the accumulation of 64 ranking points and 78 kill points. Meanwhile, RRQ Hades won the runner-up position with a collection of 135 points, only two points away from ONIC Olympus in third place with 133 points.

The matches throughout the grand finals were very tight. Evidently, from a total of six match point booyah (won), each point was successfully secured by six different teams in each match.