Indonesian football league system
There are 5 levels of competition in the hierarchy. The top three in the hierarchy are professional and semi-professional competitions, whereas the rest are amateur.
In 1914 to 1930, Indonesia had amateur national football league organized by the Nederlandsch Indische Voetbal Bond, namely DEI Championship.
Prior to 1979, Indonesia had an amateur national football league system, namely Perserikatan, which consisted several levels of competition. This league founded in 1931 replaced DEI Championship. It's the 1st Indonesia football league competition organized by PSSI. Since 1932 to 1950 DEI Championship competition running alongside the Perserikatan as a competition for the Dutch and European players, the same year span Tiong Hoa Championship was held for players of Chinese descent.
In 1979/80, a semi-professional league was founded, namely Galatama, which consisted of only one level of competition (except 1983 and 1990 in which it involved 2 divisions). Therefore, since 1979, both Galatama and Perserikatan were existed and had their own league systems.
In 1994, PSSI merged both competitions into a new competition system, namely the Liga Indonesia. All clubs from both top level leagues were merged into the Liga Indonesia Premier Division, the new system's top flight league. Furthermore, since Galatama didn't have a lower level leagues, Liga Indonesia's lower leagues took all clubs from the same level in Perserikatan.
In 2008, PSSI created a new level, the Indonesia Super League, as the system's new top flight league. Hence, the Premier Division was then relegated to the 2nd and so on. This new league was created to introduce full professionalism in Indonesian football.
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