Sports Minister Readies Indonesia as Host of 2022 ASEAN Para Games

Sea Games fans, after two years, 31st Sea Games will be held on May 12 to 23, 2022 in Hanoi, Vietnam. First it was schedule in 2021, but because of covid 19 it was postponed to 2022 and Sea Games 2021 will be held on 2022. And ASEAN Para Games will be held on July 20 to 31, 2022 in Indonesia.

Indonesia was officially chosen as the host of the Asean Para Games 2022 on February 23, replacing Vietnam, which decided to withdraw and will only hold the Sea Games in May 2022.

Clergyman of Youth and Sports Zainudin Amali has said that he would quickly start attempting to plan Indonesia to be the host of the ASEAN Para Games 2022, which will be held July 20-31, 2022 in Solo, Central Java. “I had answered to President Joko Widodo that Indonesia has been selected as the host of ASEAN Para Games 2022, and he said, ‘take it’. Consequently, It was daring to take the despite the fact that main a while,” Amali said here on Saturday.

He conceded that the planning time for the 2022 ASEAN Para Games was viewed as brief, with just five months until the games start. Amali noticed that this implies that the arrangements should be facilitated, like preparing the competitors in front of the occasion. Amali said his group will initially hold a coordination meeting with National Paralympic Committee Chairman Senny Marbun and the Mayor of Solo City Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

“Almost certainly, I will end up being the coordinator and the Solo Mayor as the director,” he added.

Solo was formally assigned as the host of the 2022 ASEAN Para Games, as expressed in a declaration gave by the ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF) on January 14, 2022. The eleventh ASEAN Para Games is intended to not just happen in the city of Solo, yet in addition in the encompassing region.

It will be the second time Indonesia has the ASEAN Para Games, with the initial time being in 2011 at Solo. In the mean time, NPC Indonesia has selected Surakarta (Solo) Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka as seat of the ASEAN Para Games Organizing Committee 2022.