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ndonesia'€™s sporting contingent for the next Asian Games include athletes from seven martial arts with wushu, karate and taekwondo fighters considered to be the team'€™s medal hopefuls.

'€œAll the martial artists have an equal opportunity but we have pinned our hopes more on wushu, karate and taekwondo,'€ Djafar Djantang, an official from the Indonesia contingent in charge of martial arts, told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

Wushu gave Indonesia four gold medals while Karate two at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Myanmar. The taekwondo athletes, however, returned home empty-handed.

Martial arts make up seven of the 20 sports Indonesia plans to compete in the next Asian Games, which will be held in Incheon, South Korea, from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4. Martial art athletes make up 30 of the 150 sportsmen and women Indonesia has on the provisional list.

Djafar said that they had yet to set medal target.

'€œWe will set the target after a workshop next month, which will discuss and map out the strengths and weaknesses of our squad,'€ he said.

The other four martial art sports are judo, fencing, boxing and wrestling. The athletes are now undergoing training in several different regions.

Karate, fencing and judo athletes are training in Jakarta while the taekwondo athletes are in South Korea. Bali is the training ground for boxers; Sempaja, East Kalimantan, and Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan for wrestlers. The Wushu athletes are in Medan, North Sumatra.

According to Djafar, the number of athletes might change after another selection next month, in which the athletes will undergo physical, health and psychological evaluations, as well as biomotoric ability tests.

The Youth and Sports Ministry'€™s deputy chief of development, Djoko Pekik Irianto, previously said that Indonesia expected to win 9 medals from the quadrennial sporting showcase.

The 2014 Asian Games will offer medals in 36 sports, six sports less than the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

In Guangzhou, Indonesia brought home four gold medals to finish 15th out of 35 participating countries. The dragon boat team contributed three golds with the other won by the badminton squad.