Dispora Palu Prepare Bonuses for POPDA Athletes

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reporter: firmansyah

HEAD
OF EDUCATION
And
Sports Department (Dispora) Palu, Andi Sumardi promised that the municipal
government will prepare bonus for outstanding athletes in the event of Regional
Student Sports Week (Popda) Central Sulawesi. This will be held from 21 – 27
July 2018. Dispora Palu prepares bonus for gold winner Rp1.000.000, silver
Rp750.000 and bronze Rp500.000. This was said in the Parliament Office Palu while
waiting for the plenary session on  Monday
(02/07/2018).

According to Sumardi, this year’s Popda
Event will be held in Toli-Toli District, but due to a landslide disaster, the
event is eventually diverted to the province. Palu has prepared athletes to
follow about eight sports to be contested such as sepak takraw, basketball,
table tennis, volley ball, athletics and silat.

For training sessions of Palu athletes, he
also explained that they have prepared the transportation and consumption costs
for 26 meetings by using APBD funds. ” By using the APBD, we had set up the transportation
costs, as well as consumption for Palu contingents during the exercise. We will
also monitor their activities, ” he admitted.

For an athlete recruitment system that represents
the city, Sumardi added that the pattern and mechanism are different from last
year. This time, Dispora will take some of the best players from some of the
contested sports branches to then be collaborated with athletes from Palu
clubs.

‘’It
means those who won last year will probably not represent the sport again. As
in the volley ball, we recruit those who have achievements to paired with other
volley ball club athletes. Yesterday, they have been doing joint exercises, as
well as sparing with other clubs and the results are very good, “he
explained.


The future prospects for Popda athletes, he
will be pushing for a provincial sports weekend in November. “We will
provide an opportunity for the contingents of the city that has followed Popda
to follow the upcoming sports week at the next provincial level. Last year’s
Popda held in Poso District, Palu Athletes won the overall championship, so we
motivated the athletes to compete, to keep it going, “he said.
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