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Vice President Jusuf Kalla held a limited meeting to discuss report and evaluation of accountability of the national committee  of the 18th Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta and Palembang. He said in Jakarta on Friday that the achievement and success of the Asian Games have achieved the target by having “A Plus“ grade, namely success of building venue facilities, the success of organizing the event, and having the 5^th-rank achievement.

“The facility, the organizing, and achievement, all three aspects go beyond what was planned. All parties, both the inside and outside the country, appreciate it What is the criticism? One of the criticisms is that this Asian Games is too short, only 2 weeks, why not a month? This ABC, we got A plus. how this implementation is successful from all sides!,” said Jusuf Kalla.

Vice President Jusuf Kala further stated that the success of building a number of venues can be seen after the event in which a number of world-class venues, such as the Velodrome, Gelora Bung Karno Sports Stadium, and Aquatic Stadiums, have been hired by several countries to become the arena of world matches. The success of building venues has an economic value, in addition to being able to provide revenue for the venue maintenance. (Rizky)