Football Association of Indonesia
PSSI was established by Soeratin Sosrosoegondo, who graduated from Harvard and returned to Indonesia in 1928. He became the 1st Indonesian to work at his company, a Dutch enterprise in Yogyakarta. He later resigned from the company and became more active in the revolutionary movement.
In PSSI's earlier years, football was used to resist the Dutch control of the colonies by gathering all the footballers. In 1936, when PSSI became stronger, NIVB was changed toNederlandsh Indische Voetbal Unie and cooperation with the Dutch began. In 1938, with "Dutch East Indies national football team" as their name, NIVU sent their team to the 1938 FIFA World Cup at France. At the time, most of the players came from NIVU instead of PSSI, and there were nine players of Chinese origin. As a result, Soeratin expressed his protest since he wanted a match between NIVU and PSSI before the FIFA World Cup. In addition, he was also disgraced because the flag that was used at the World Cup matches involving the Dutch East Indies was the Dutch flag. Soeratin then cancelled the agreement with NIVU at the PSSI congress in 19390 in Solo.When the Japanese armies came to Indonesia, the PSSI became inactive because Japan classified it as a Taiikukai (Japanese sport association).
PSSI is composed of five levels of national football leagues, which are Indonesia Premier League, Premier Division, First Division, Second Division and Third Division. The top three levels are professional competitions and the rest are amateur competitions.
There are other football competitions on national level, namely the National Youth League, Indonesian Women Football Tournament, Indonesian National Futsal League and Indonesia Super League U-21 which are held in similar esteem to the ISL.
Furthermore, each regional level football associations in the country has its own annual amateur football competition structure involving local clubs.
The PSSI consists of 33 provincial associations, comprising the different autonomous regions in Indonesia.
North Kalimantan was officially became a new province in Indonesia on 25 October 2012 so they don't have an association, for a while they were joined by the East Kalimantan Association.
| The PSSI consists of 3 | independent associations. |
Former chairman of PSSI Nurdin Halid was sentenced to prison as a result of corruption. Although he was been urged to resign his position, he was able to resist with the help of one of the political party leaders in the country. FIFA conducted an inspection into the claims but didn't continue past this phase. The case was never investigated again.
At the end of 2010, during the AFF Cup final between Indonesia and Malaysia, Nurdin Halid accepted a lunch invitation from Aburizal Bakrie, a wealthy businessman and owner of Pelita Jaya. At the time, the national team was preparing for the finals and the training was disrupted by the lunch invitation and another ceremony accepted by Nurdin Halid was unwelcome. This upset many in the country because it seemed that the national team was being used to propel Halid's image. Indonesia ended up losing to Malaysia with the aggregate 4-2.
Former Indonesia manager Alfred Riedl, who coached the team during the tournament, stated that the lunch invitation was "wasting time".
In January 2011, someone named "Eli Cohen" had sent an e-mail to the President of Indonesia and several other Indonesian leaders indicating that the officers of PSSI had been involved in bribery for the 2010 AFF Cup final. He wrote that the officers gained billions of rupiah from the bet to prepare the campaign in the next PSSI congress. This case is under investigation.
On April 1, 2011, FIFA emergency committee met and announced that, on April 4, control of the PSSI would pass to a normalisation committee composed of personalities in Indonesian football to oversee presidential elections by May 21. It also barred Halid, George Toisutta, Arifin Panigoro (founder of Liga Primer Indonesia and Nirwan Bakrie (Halid`s vice-president, and brother of Aburizal Bakrie) from contending for the presidency seat.
FIFA also rescinded the power of the current PSSI executive committee after FIFA's emergencies committee decreed it was "not in control of football in Indonesia" and had lost "all credibility." In a statement released on April 4, 2011, FIFA said that the current PSSI leadership's lack of control over Indonesian football was evidenced by "the failure to gain control of the run-away league set up without the involvement of PSSI or by the fact it could not organise a congress whose sole goals were to adopt an electoral code and elect an electoral commission." It said that its emergency committee had concluded that the PSSI leadership "had lost all credibility" and was no longer "in a position anymore to lead the process to solve the current crisis."
The Normalisation Committee, composed of personalities in Indonesian football who aren't seeking electoral office or a position on an electoral commission, led by famous public figure and former PSSI chairman, Agum Gumelar, is to take over running of Indonesian football until new leadership is elected by May 21.
On July 9, 2011, Djohar Arifin Husin was elected chairman of the PSSI from 2011 to 2015 through an Extraordinary Congress of the PSSI held in 2011. Djohar was elected after defeating the other candidate, Agusman Effendi. His vice-chairman was Farid Rahman.
Related Sites for Football Association of Indonesia
- Jakarta Schools Football Association read Football Association of Indonesia
- Singapore national youth football team - Football Association of ... read Football Association of Indonesia
- Malaysia FAM League - Football Association of Malaysia read Football Association of Indonesia
- Brunei Football read Football Association of Indonesia
