What is Happening With Indonesia Football (Part 2)

At the close season of 2013 the old PSSI regime succeed to take over the Djohar Arifin era and PSSI secertary general Joko Driyono announced that the cancellation of the 2013 IPL play off final. Joko said that league had been cancelled by PSSI so there are no winners of the competition. He said 7 clubs elected will be valued for the the verification process to join the new unified league in 2014.

The 2014 ISL divided in to two groups based on the clubs geographical so they could minimazed the budget and only allowed to use 3 foreign players on the pitch. Four teams from IPL will participate, They are Semen Padang, Persiba Bantul, Persijap Jepara and PSM Makasar. The season was won by Persipura Jayapura and they also made a history by being the first club from Indonesia who reached AFC competition semifinal's in 2014 AFC Cup.

The promosing side of U-19 of Indonesia finally reach the real stage, AFC U-19 Championship which decide the Asian representative to the 2015 U-20 World Cup ended disastrously. Beaten three times by Uzbekistan, Australia and UAE, a team that Indonesia beat twice on friendly a year before. PSSI was blamed because they ruined the preparation of the team by held a tour around the nations. Ironically Myanmar, who had beaten by the same Indonesian team reached the semifinal and qualified to the World Cup.

Indonesia National Team U-19

For the senior side the Suzuki Cup at December was pretty much the same, another failure. Alfred Rield is back, all the senior force is coming but 4-0 beaten by the Philipines crashed the Merah Putih hope in to the semifinal. On April 2015, 2 weeks after 2015 ISL season running the Ministry of Sports and Youth suspended the PSSI after disobeying theree warning letters that send by the ministry.

BOPI, the Indonesian Professional Sports Agency doubt the eligibility of Arema Cronus and Persebaya. The original club was the one who had compete at the IPL and they are not admitted by the new PSSI. Finally FIFA suspended PSSI during the FIFA Excecuitve Comitee meeting on May 30 2015 until the situation is clear. So whith this sanctions Indonesia cannot take part on 2018 World Cup qualifying, 2019 Asia Cup qualifying and every regional competition and every age group such as SEA Games, Asian Games, U-23 championship, U-19 championship, U-17 championship.

Nobody knows when is this gonna end, bribe, match fixing, politician involve has been part of Indonesian football for years....