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espite the agreement to sit together in a forum, the national cloud over soccer looks far from clearing away following the Indonesian Soccer Rescue Committee’s (KPSI) refusal to dissolve.

KPSI Chairman La Nyalla Mattalitti said that he did not need to dismiss his organization since FIFA confirmed that the March 17 congress would be an extraordinary congress.

An extraordinary congress, he said, is not authorized to dismiss the KPSI.

“If it is extraordinary congress, the KSPI will not disband because the MoU signed last year [between the PSSI and the KPSI] only stipulates that the KPSI will be dissolved immediately after a regular congress,” La Nyalla said as quoted by Antara news wire.com on Wednesday.

The PSSI is the Indonesian Soccer Association.

He was referring to the MoU signed in Kuala Lumpur in June 7, 2012 at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters. One of the agreed points stipulated that the KPSI will be dissolved and cease to exist as a body immediately after the next soccer congress.

The MoU also agreed the reinstatement of Roberto Rouw, Erwin Dwi Budiawan, Tony Apriliani and La Nyalla as PSSI executive committee members, and that the Indonesian Super League (ISL) a KPSI competition, agrees to immediately come under the jurisdiction of PSSI.

In its letter to the PSSI received on Tuesday, the world soccer ruling body FIFA instructed the extraordinary congress to only discuss unification of the two leagues and federations, a review of PSSI statutes and the reinstatement of those four expelled executive committee members.

Participants eligible to vote at the next congress would those on the list as they were during the PSSI extraordinary congress in July 2011.

La Nyalla said that he would propose additional agenda items to the congress.

“The additional items are a time and place for the regular congress. But it will all depend of the voters, whether they agree on the additions or not,” he said

Commenting on the recent development, Youth and Sports Minister Roy Suryo said that people did
not need to worry about status of the congress.

“If the [March 17] congress is an extraordinary congress, we just need to hold a regular congress,” he told The Jakarta Post via text message.

“Let the PSSI unite in the congress. The recently established taskforce and I will supervise,” he said.

He added that the government was only a mediator, while future of PSSI depends on the eligible voters.