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Indonesian martial arts ( Pencak Silat )athlete Aji Bangkit Pamungkas advanced to the finals after beating Vietnamese rival Duy Tuyen Nguyen in the semifinals of the Asian Games 2018. Pamungkas won a landslide victory against Nguyen in the men`s 85 kg with a score of 5-0 during the bout held at the Taman Mini Martial Arts venue in East Jakarta on Sunday.

In the first round, Nguyen launched an aggressive attack and collected a higher point. However, in the run up to the end of the first round, Pamungkas succeeded in countering his rival`s attack and hit targets to collect points. The Indonesian athlete won the first round with a score of 6-8,7-4, 5-8,10-6 and 6-5.

In the second round, the fight went tough as the two rivals tried their respective strategies to attack each other for collecting points. Therefore, in the second round, they both collected points which are not far different, namely 8-8,2-1,4-3,4-5, and 5-5.

Yet, in the third round, the Vietnamese athlete directly launched a blindly attack that hit targets and happened to be victorious in first minutes. However, Pamungkas in the following several seconds, did his best to change and overcome the condition. He finally won the bout and advanced to the finals together with four other Indonesian martial arts athletes.

The Indonesian martial arts athletes who previously stepped into the finals are Komang Harik Adi Putra, Iqbal Candra Pratama, Abdul Malik and Wewey Wita. But other Indonesian fighter, Amri Rusdana, must surrendered to Mohd Fauzi Khalid after losing narrowly from the Malaysian fighter with a score of 2-3. Rusdana had to settle for winning the bronze medal, along with a Kyrgyzstan fighter, Daniiar Tokurov, who lost to a Vietnamese fighter, Dinh Nam Tran.

Director General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights Ronny F Sompie wants a Monitoring Team for Foreigners (Timpora) in each district/city to optimize the supervision of the existence of foreign citizens.

"Monitoring efforts must continue to be improved such as being able to follow the Regional Intelligence Community," said Ronny in Banjarmasin, recently.

However he reminded that the immigration officers only has the authority to process misuse of residence permits, not criminal acts. While the case related to working permit has become the authority of the relevant agency. In his direction at the Class I Immigration Office of Banjarmasin, Ronny expressed his appreciation for the office`s performance in serving the public. He inspected the immigration services including facilities for disabled persons, lactation room and children`s playground.

"Immigration officers should be more vigilant in issuing passports so that they are not misused for non-procedural migrant workers," he said.

The former Bali Police Chief has called on the South Kalimantan immigration office to work closely with the police considering both institutions` interrelated duties and functions, including supervision of foreigners, intellectual property rights and correctional issues.

"It is necessary to increase coordination between agencies so that the best solution is to provide services to the community," he said. (ant) 

Indonesian shooting athlete, Muhammad Sejahtera “Tera” Dwi Putra, presented the first shooting medal for the country after winning the silver medal in the men’s 10-meter running target mixed competition at Jakabaring Sport City, Palembang, Saturday (25/8).

Tera’s victory finally ended Indonesia’s shooting medal drought in the last six days of the Asian Games shooting competition.

In the final round, Tera collected 380 points, four points fewer than gold medalist Pak Myong-won from DPR Korea. The bronze medal went to China’s Yu Gan with 379 points.

Tera’s silver-winning performance was quite a feat considering that Tera was competing against Pak Myong-won, a world-class shooter and 2010 Asiad gold medalist.

Tera collected 190 points each in the first and second stages, bringing the total score to 380. Pak Myong-won, meanwhile, triumped with 192 collected in each of the two rounds.

Tera said he was grateful to finally win silver in the mixed category after he failed to reach the final round of the men’s 10-meter running target competition.

"Alhamdullilah (Thank God), I performed better today," said the 21-year-old shooter.

Indonesia shooting coach, Masruri, said he was satisfied with Tera’s result.

"[Tera’s] score in this match was only 2 or 3 points below the score he gained in the national training camp, which is still okay,” the coach said.(antara)

Indonesia's rowing team grabbed the gold medal in the men's eight lightweight final at the Jakabaring Sport City in Palembang, South Sumatra, on Friday. The Indonesia men's rowing team finished first in the 2,000-meter race in 6 minutes and 08.88 seconds. The Uzbekistan team, which clocked 6 minutes and 12.40 seconds, had to settle for the silver medal. Hong Kong, China, won the bronze medal with a time of 6 minutes 14.46 seconds (antara)