"I am sorry that the congress failed to elect a new chairman due to the chaotic situation at the meeting," he said here on Saturday.
The minister said he kept hoping that FIFA would not impose a sanction on Indonesia for taking too long to solve PSSI`s internal problem.
"We as the government will communicate with the Indonesian Sports Council (KONI) and FIFA to find the best solution to this problem," he said.
Earlier, the body controlling football globally, FIFA (International Federation of Football Associations), decided to form a Normalization Committee that would take over the task of organizing a congress from the PSSI`s executive board to elect a new PSSI chairman on May 21, 2011.
FIFA took the decision after its Emergency Committee believed that the PSSI leadership under chairman Nurdin Khalid was not in control of football in Indonesia as proven by its failure to control the run-away league (Liga Premiere/LPI) set up without the involvement of PSSI or by the fact it could not organize a peaceful congress whose sole goals were to adopt an electoral code and elect an electoral commission.
The FIFA Emergency Committee therefore came to the conclusion that the PSSI leadership had lost all its credibility in Indonesia and was no longer in a position to solve the current crisis.
The mission of the Normalization Committee is to organize an election based on the FIFA electoral code and PSSI statutes before May 21, 2011; to bring the run-away league under PSSI control or have it stopped as soon as possible; to run the day-to-day activities of PSSI in a spirit of reconciliation for the good of football in Indonesia.(*)
(T./A051/HAJM/a014)
Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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