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Text your say: Between World Cup and more tempeh
Grand opening: National soccer players from Brazil (left) and Croatia enter the stadium before their 2014 World Cup opening match at the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo on June 12
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span class="inline inline-center">Grand opening: National soccer players from Brazil (left) and Croatia enter the stadium before their 2014 World Cup opening match at the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo on June 12. Reuters/Paulo Whitaker
June 25, p3
Campaign promises made by presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto and rival Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo on Tuesday again demonstrated the sharp contrast between the two.
Prabowo was campaigning in East Java, while Jokowi made stops in Jambi and Palembang in Sumatra. Appearing to have run out of other sweeping campaign promises, Prabowo attempted to capitalize on the nation's soccer fever by pledging to make Indonesia the host of the World Cup.
Other recent promises from the former general have included setting a national minimum wage of Rp 6 million (US$500) ' the current minimum wage in every province except Jakarta is below Rp 2 million ' and giving Rp 1 billion each year to the more than 72,000 villages across the country.
Your comments
In German they say leicht gesagt, schwer getan, which translates to 'we're bored of promises made based on events not even related to the core problem of Indonesian people in general'.
Berchtes
The only way an Indonesian athlete is going to get to the World Cup is if he changes his citizenship and plays for another team.
There are so many great players here, but with no real government support, inadequate private support, the absence of any quality parks or practice areas and a lack of professional coaches and trainers, it's just not going o happen.
How about a badminton world cup? Now that might work.
Joyoboyo
Instead of promising to host the world cup Prabowo should focus on making sure players get paid in Indonesia's own national soccer league.
Deddy K
If you host the cup, then you automatically qualify to compete in it!
This is smart thinking by Prabowo. What vision he has!
Loro Blonyo
Yes Indonesia will host a World Cup, but it will burden all citizens!
It's kind of like buying expensive clothes only to die in them because you haven't saved any money to
buy food.
L. Broo
This makes clear the differences in what each candidate is prepared to propose to the people.
We have to determine which proposal is realistic and which is not.
Amin
There are indeed many talented soccer players in Indonesia.
However, their skills are not developed under the current Indonesian soccer league, which is corrupt and crippled by petty interests.
Also, if the Indonesian national team wants to compete on the international level, it has to get rid of incompetent coaches and hire international-level coaches instead.
Jan Karl
It would be best to seriously focus on developing a national team that can compete at the top level, because it may be a few decades before there is a realistic chance of Indonesia hosting the World Cup.
Gado
