The Football Association of Indonesia (; abbreviated as PSSI) is the governing body of football in Indonesia. It was founded on 19 April 1930. The PSSI joined FIFA in 1952 and the Asian Football Confederation in 1954.
History
thumb|PSSI Monument/[[PSIM Yogyakarta|PSIM Football Building in Yogyakarta near Mandala Krida Stadium, the birthplace of PSSI.]]
Early history
PSSI was established by , who graduated in civil engineering from a technical university in Germany in 1927 and returned to Indonesia in 1928. He became the first 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.
To accomplish his mission, Soeratin held many meetings with Indonesian professional football players, mostly through personal contacts because they wanted to avoid the Dutch police. Later, at a meeting that was held in Jakarta with Soeratin, the head of Voetbalbond Indonesische Jakarta (VIJ), and other players, the group decided to establish a national football organisation. On 19 April 1930, almost all non-national organisations, such as VIJ (Jakarta), BIVB (Bandung), PSM (Yogyakarta), IVBM (Magelang), VVB (Surakarta), MVB (Madiun), and SIVB (Surabaya) gathered at the final meeting and established Persatoean Sepak Raga Seloeroeh Indonesia (Football Association of Indonesia or PSSI) with Soeratin as the first leader.
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 to Nederlandsh Indische Voetbal Unie (NIVU, meaning "Football Union of Dutch East Indies") 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 1939 in Solo.
Japanese occupation
When the Japanese armies came to Indonesia, the PSSI became inactive because Japan classified it as a (Japanese sport association).
Executives
List of chairmen
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!No.
!Chair
!Took office
!Left office
!Notes
|-
!1
|
|1930
|1940
|Before Indonesia's independence
|-
!2
|Artono Martosoewignyo
|1940
|1950
|Indonesian National Revolution
|-
!3
|Maladi
|1950
|1960
|
|-
!4
|Abdul Wahab Djojohadikusumo
|1960
|1964
|
|-
!5
|Maulwi Saelan
|1964
|1967
|
|-
!6
|Kosasih Poerwanegara
|1967
|1975
|
|-
!7
|Bardosono
|1975
|1977
|
|-
!—
|Moehono
|1977
|1977
|ad interim
|-
!8
|Ali Sadikin
|1977
|1981
|
|-
!9
|Sjarnoebi Said
|1981
|1983
|
|-
!10
|Kardono
|1983
|1991
|
|-
!11
|Azwar Anas
|1991
|1999
|
|-
!12
|Agum Gumelar
|1999
|2003
|
|-
!13
|Nurdin Halid
|2003
|1 April 2011
|
|-
!—
|Agum Gumelar
|1 April 2011
|9 July 2011
|ad interim
|-
!14
|Djohar Arifin Husin
|9 July 2011
|18 April 2015
|
|-
!15
|La Nyalla Mattalitti
|18 April 2015
|3 August 2016
|
|-
!—
|Hinca Panjaitan
|3 August 2016
|10 November 2016
|ad interim
|-
!16
|Edy Rahmayadi
|10 November 2016
|20 January 2019
|
|-
!—
|Joko Driyono
|20 January 2019
|2 May 2019
|ad interim
|-
!—
|Iwan Budianto
|2 May 2019
|2 November 2019
|ad interim
|-
!17
|
|2 November 2019
|16 February 2023
|
|-
!18
|Erick Thohir
|16 February 2023
|Incumbent
|
|}
Executive board
{|class="wikitable"
!Name
!Position
!Source
|-
|Erick Thohir
|Chairman
|
|-
|
|Vice-Chairman
| then the PSSI provincial association of Liga 4, the Board for National Team (BTN) for national teams and the Board for Futsal National Team (BFN) for national futsal teams.
PSSI competitions
PSSI is made up of four levels of national football leagues, which are:
- Super League
- Championship
- Liga Nusantara
- Liga 4
- Piala Indonesia, as the domestic cups to compete clubs from all divisions level
- Indonesia President's Cup, as pre-season tournament
- Indonesia League Cup, as the domestic league cups to compete clubs from Super League, Championship, and Liga Nusantara
There are other football competitions on national level, namely the:
- Liga 1 Putri
- Pertiwi Cup
- Soeratin Cup
- Elite Pro Academy
Furthermore, each regional level (and lower) football associations in the country has its own annual amateur football competition structure involving local clubs.
National teams
Currently, Indonesia has the following football national teams:
- Men's
- Indonesia national football team
- Indonesia national under-23 football team
- Indonesia national under-20 football team
- Indonesia national under-17 football team
- Women's
- Indonesia women's national football team
- Indonesia women's national under-20 football team
- Indonesia women's national under-17 football team
- Men's Futsal
- Indonesia national futsal team
- Indonesia national under-20 futsal team
- Women's Futsal
- Indonesia women's national futsal team
- Men's Beach Soccer
- Indonesia national beach soccer team
Controversies and critics
Nurdin Halid legal cases
In 2007, former chairman of PSSI Nurdin Halid was sentenced to prison as a result of his legal cases. Although he was 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 did not continue past this phase. The case was never investigated again.
Bribery allegation
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.
Normalisation Committee and selection of new chairman
On 1 April 2011, FIFA Emergency Committee met and announced that, on 4 April, control of the PSSI would pass to a normalisation committee made up of personalities in Indonesian football to oversee presidential elections by 21 May. It also barred Halid, George Toisutta (the Indonesia Armed Forces general), 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."
The Normalisation Committee, made up of personalities in Indonesian football who are not 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 21 May. The warning letters were sent because of PSSI's decision to halt Indonesia Super League amidst the dispute between PSSI and government's Indonesian Professional Sports Agency (BOPI) over the eligibility of Arema Cronus and Persebaya Surabaya to play in the league. President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo had supported the Sport Minister decision not to revoke the suspension as the President believed that there should be no problem for Indonesia to be absent from international competitions if the purpose is to improve the national football.
FIFA had decided to suspend the PSSI during the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on Saturday, 30 May 2015, in Zurich, Switzerland. The Executive decided to suspend the PSSI with immediate effect and until the PSSI would be able to comply with its obligations under arts. 13 and 17 of the FIFA Statutes.
Finally, Indonesia State Minister for Youth and Sports Affairs lifted their suspension of the PSSI per 10 May 2016.
National team training schedule miscommunication
On 26 May 2022, national team's head coach, Shin Tae-yong stated that they had canceled the official training because Gelora Bung Karno Madya Stadium as the venue of the training had not yet been booked. "The reason is bit embarrassing. We wanted to exercises on the field after weight training, but earlier, there was information that the field was being used. It had not been "booked". So we decided to replace the training with jogging," said Shin Tae-yong. The team replaced the training with jogging around Gelora Bung Karno Stadium. The training was held due to friendly match on FIFA matchday schedule against Bangladesh on 1 June 2022.
See also
- Indonesian football league system
References
External links
- Indonesia at FIFA site
- Indonesia at AFC site