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North Jakarta Rajawali Sakti Arena became the overall champion and won the Indonesian Wushu Executive Board Chair Airlangga Hartarto at the 2020 Taolu Virtual Wushu Championship which ended on Saturday (Oct 17). At the 2020 Virtual Wushu Championship, Herman Wijaya's arena collected 12 gold, eight silver, and nine bronze medals. Herman, through his official statement on Saturday, said that he was proud of this achievement. This is the second time that Rajawali Sakti has won the Airlangga Hartarto Cup after previously in 2019. He appreciated the participants' struggles who never gave up being the best. The runner up position is occupied by the Laba-laba Sakti Jakarta with seven gold and two bronze medals. Meanwhile, Yasanis Surabaya with five gold, eight silver, and five bronze medals ranks third. Wushu Garuda Jember is in fourth place with three gold, six silver, and 10 bronze medals. Besides winning the overall title, the Wushu athlete Rajawali Sakti, Kenneth Christovani Wijaya also scored a hatrick. After winning gold in the Chang Quan and Gun Shu numbers, Kenneth, who achieved 9.06 points, won his third gold medal from Dao Shu Junior B Putra.

Raja Sapta Oktohari, Chairperson of the Executive Board of Indonesian Bicycle Sports Association (PB ISSI) said that his side is currently organizing a bicycle racing event entitled ‘UCI Grand Fondo Mandalika’ in 2021. This activity is expected to go hand in hand with the holding of the Mandalika MotoGP 2021 premiere motorbike racing event. In a press release received by Antara, Wednesday (Oct 21), Oktohari added that one of the PB ISSI activities is to revive outdoor activities, especially bicycle racing events that are inactive due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Apart from UCI Grand Fondo Mandalika, PB ISSI is also ready to hold another bicycle racing event that was delayed this year, including the Tour de Indonesia, Tour de Singkarak, Tour de Ijen, and Tour de Siak. The desire to launch a post-pandemic sports event is in accordance with President Joko Widodo's message in his remarks during the 37th National Sports Day (Haornas) celebration on September 9.

Sports activities are believed to open up great opportunities for Indonesia to develop the sport tourism industry. Moreover, sport tourism has now become a new tourism trend in a number of countries that can open up global market industries. Through sport tourism, it can also provide a multiplier effect of economic impacts by utilizing and developing outdoor sports.

The Indonesian chess team won two gold medals and one silver medal in individual numbers at the 2020 Asian Cup online chess tournament. As announced by the Asian Chess Federation through its official website quoted on Thursday, two gold medals for Indonesia were presented by Grandmaster Susanto Megaranto and International Master Medina Warda Aulia. International Master Irene Kharisma Sukandar won silver.

According to the regulations, the award of individual medals per board is only based on the result of the match in stage one or the qualifying round with the Swiss system which takes place in a nine-round competition format. As for stage II or the quarter-finals to the finals, there are no more individual medals because the match system has also changed to a knockout system so that it is no longer possible to fulfill the same standard assessment.

In the first stage, each player competes for six innings (five rounds for five-board players or reserve players) and can compete for individual medals. The criterion for selecting the best player or medalist for each board is the performance rating, which is the average rating of the opponents it has faced and defeated. These stages are the fairest criterion compared to the previous one which is based on the number of points achieved. The chess tournament between Asian countries started on October 10 and completed nine qualifying rounds on October 20.

The official calendar in the document of the Federation International de Motocyclisme -FIM Grand Prix World Championship Regulation, which was updated on 25 August 2020, on page 34 has listed Indonesia as one of the hosts for the MotoGP event in 2021. This means that Indonesia has officially been elected to host the 2021 MotoGP season. The Indonesian MotoGP will be held at the Mandalika Circuit, Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara -NTB.

With the assurance of being the organizer, Indonesia will build a racing team to participate in the MotoGP 2021 event at the Mandalika Circuit. But not for the main MotoGP class, a racing team called the Indonesian MotoGP Team will compete quickly in the Moto2 class.

The plan to build the Moto2 Team was conveyed by Chairman of the Indonesian MotoGP Team, Rapsel Ali after meeting Minister of Youth and Sports, Zainudin Amali, Friday (9/10). According to Rapsel Ali, the Indonesian MotoGP Team will collaborate with technical support from other countries. Meanwhile, for the racers, Dimas Ekky Pratama will be in Moto2 for some time.

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.

Minister of Youth and Sports, Zainudin Amali, said that his sdie would be more selective in processing application for naturalization of athletes before they are recommended to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights to be followed up. He also stated that the application for naturalization must be submitted based on urgent importance or urgency. The names proposed must also be ensured that they can contribute to improving the achievements of the national sports team. This was affirmed Minister Zainudin Amali, in a joint working meeting with Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives –DPR on Monday (Oct 5).

In this regard, Minister Zainudin Amali will ask every sport that has naturalized athletes to monitor the development of each player whether it makes a significant change or not.

Meanwhile on Monday, the Plenary Session of the DPR approved the application for consideration of Indonesia citizenship for four athletes of foreign nationals. The four athletes are US basketball player, Brandon Van Dorn Jawato, British basketball player, Lester Prosper, Canadian basketball player, Kimberly Pierre Louis, and Dutch soccer player, Marc Anthony Klok.

University of Bina Nusantara (Binus) took home the 2020 Menpora Cup trophy after winning the grand final which took place online on 3-4 October. The Binus team, which was strengthened by Thomas Setyawan and friends, managed to beat seven other teams in the grand final, namely Udayana University, Semarang Institute of Technology High School, Bogor Agricultural University, High School 3 Palembang, Telkom University, High School 1 North Bintan, and Gunadarma University. Besides the trophy, Binus University is also entitled to a coaching fee of Rp50 million. Udayana University as the runner up received Rp30 million, while the Semarang Institute of Technology High School in third place won Rp15 million., Deputy for the Improvement of Sports Achievement at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Chandra Bakti hopes that the success of the 2020 E-sports Cup can be the first step so that the coaching and achievements of e-sports will be better and more developed not only winning in the world championships, but also in various multi-events.

The Southeast Sulawesi Indonesian Motor Association (IMI) provincial board will build a national motor racing circuit in the Nanga-Nanga area in Baruga District, Kendari City. As quoted from Antara, Head Executive of the Southeast Sulawesi IMI, Anton Timbang through a message in Kendari on Wednesday (7/10), said that the national standard motorbike racing circuit will cost tens of billions of rupiah and has a track length of two kilometers and has received approval from the Central IMI Executive Board in Jakarta.

In addition to being a new tourism location, this circuit spends the 2020 Southeast Sulawesi regional budget worth Rp1, 9 for the first stage and aims to help the government handle illegal motorbike racing actions that often disturb residents. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Southeast Sulawesi Indonesian National Sports Committee, Agista Ariyani Bombay said that the construction of sports infrastructure and facility is a commitment to raise the spirit of achieving sports achievements. It is hoped that the motorbike racing circuit in Kendari City can spur the enthusiasm of athletes who have been showing achievements at the national level and this can be enjoyed by the public for the next 25 years.

The Indonesian National Olympic Committee (NOC) in a virtual discussion session conveyed the need for effective solutions so that athlete training programs can continue amid Covid-19 pandemic. Chairperson of the Indonesian NOC, Radja Sapta Oktohari, as quoted by Antara in Jakarta, Wednesday (6/10) said that in a pandemic situation that forces all activities to stop, guidelines and rules are needed that refer to regulations issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Sports Federations. According to one of the speakers, Prof. dr. Menaldi Rasmin, the big challenge for athletes is in team sports and locations that have the potential for spreading, namely in closed spaces. So what must be done is to break the chain of transmission with health care and insurance for all officials and athletes. Meanwhile, another present speaker was Dr. dr. Hananto Andriantoro who said that the Covid-19 pandemic indeed requires athletes to stop high-intensity training because it causes a temporary immunity decrease. Therefore, he recommended the need for a health policy developed by doctors from various disciplines as well as trainers.

Liliyana Natsir was chosen as the best women's badminton player in the last decade based on the poll results held by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) via Twitter. In the final stage, Liliyana won the poll with 69.4 percent of the votes, beating the world number one badminton player from China-Taipei, Tai Tzu Ying who was in second place with 30.6 percent. Liliyana Natsir (35-years old) also managed to beat Carolina Marin from Spain, Huang Yaqiong from China, and Ayaka Takahashi from Japan. Throughout her career as a professional badminton player, she has won various titles. She is noted to have collected 51 international titles, including a gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics with his partner, Tontowi Ahmad. In addition, she also won titles in other prestigious events, namely four World Championship titles in 2005, 2007, 2013, and 2017 which she won with Nova Widianto and Tontowi Ahmad.

The Indonesian National Paralympic Committee (NPC) will hold again National Training Center in early October after being stopped last April. Chairman of the Indonesian NPC, Senny Marbun, as quoted by detiksport said that the plan is still adjusting to the development of the Corona pandemic still hits the country. Senny revealed that he would call 65 athletes with disabilities to continue the national training until the Paralympic in 2021. Previously, the NPC had received a national Paralympic plate budget worth Rp30.3 billion from the Government. Meanwhile, for the 2021 ASEAN Para Games in Vietnam, according to Senny Marbun, the NPC has not thought further about the event, let alone considering the current condition of the pandemic.

The plan is for Indonesia to perform in five sports, namely athletes in badminton, cycling, weight lifting, table tennis, and athletics in the Paralympics. However, only two athletes have passed, namely badminton and table tennis. Meanwhile, the opportunities for other athletes are still tentative because there are still Paralympic qualifications next year. For badminton, Indonesia also hopes for a gold medal at the Paralympics like the Olympics. This cannot be separated from the special record of badminton players at the World Championships last year. The Red-and-White squad won five gold medals and three bronze medals. As for the table tennis players, the squad has David Jacobs. He has already secured Paralympic tickets. He won the ticket after participating in several table tennis qualifying championships.

The deadline for registering for the virtual running event entitled ‘Milo Indonesia Virtual Run’ is extended until September 30, 2020, from the previous one until September 18, 2020. In addition to the registration deadline, the virtual running period is also extended, from initially only 20 September 2020 to 3 October 2020. This was stated by the person in charge of the activity, Mirna Tri Handayani in a press release in Jakarta on Tuesday (22/9). With the extension of that period, it is hoped that more running lovers and Indonesian families will participate in this activity. In addition, she also wants to invite all people to start living a healthy and active lifestyle. Furthermore, she revealed that this year's Milo Indonesia Virtual Run is also held to celebrate the National Sports Day (Haornas) which fells on September 9, 2020, through the Milo Indonesia Virtual Run. According to Mirna, her side also supports the recommendation of the Ministry of Youth and Sports in enhancing awareness of the Indonesian people to continue exercising while adhering to health protocols. The virtual running race is divided into two categories, namely 10 kilometers (10K) and Family Run 3 kilometers (3K).

The Executive Board of the Indonesian Cycling Federation (ICF) is holding a Jakarta-Papua cycling as far as 2020 kilometers as a form of support for the implementation of the XX 2021 National Sports Week (PON). Chairman of Executive Board of ICF, Raja Sapta Oktohari in Jakarta on Monday (21/9) said that the event is also used as an approach to campaign for PON to the regions. The Jakarta-Papua cycling has started with the first stage covering a distance of 120 km from Jakarta to Purwakarta on Monday. The cycling activity is expected to finish in Papua before the PON is held in October 2021. According to Oktohari who is also Head of the Indonesian Olympic Committee (IOC), the accumulated distance can gradually reach 2020 km once it reaches Papua. He added that his side will also invite Indonesian sports stakeholders, from national athletes to the bicycle community to participate in these activities. Even, the General Chairman of the Central National Sports Committee, Marciano Norman has agreed to participate. The event is organized according to strict health protocols. If everything goes well, the calculation will finish in December 2020.