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PSSI forms financial, match-fixing task forces
Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) chief Erick Thohir has announced the formation of two task forces geared to tackle match-fixing and to ensure financial transparency within Indonesian soccer’s governing body.
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Erick Thohir speaks to journalists during a press conference in Jakarta on July 12, 2018. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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o:p>In keeping with his promise to bring in widespread reforms, Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) chief Erick Thohir has announced the formation of two task forces geared to tackle match-fixing and to ensure financial transparency within Indonesian soccer’s governing body.
The announcement came just days after Erick officially appointed London-based global accounting company, Ernst and Young, to conduct thorough audits of the PSSI’s finances.
“We have asked Ernst and Young to conduct an audit and investigate the accounts of [Indonesia] soccer in a transparent manner, so that things that are detrimental to many parties, including players, referees and the [spirit of] competition, could be avoided,” Erick told reporters on Friday.
One of the figures slated to spearhead the finance task force is Ardan Adiperdana, the former head of the Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP), an internal government agency that audits state budget spending, who is also the newly elected head of the Indonesian Accounting Association.
The financial task force, Erick went on to say, would work separately from Ernst and Young’s team and would serve to corroborate the results of the audit.
The match-fixing task force, on the other hand, would focus more on ensuring the integrity of Indonesian soccer, and would work closely with FIFA’s regional office in Indonesia, expected to be set up in the near future.
Should the task force find indications of match-fixing, Erick said the PSSI, in agreement with Indonesian soccer clubs, would not hesitate to impose lifetime bans for the referees or players involved.
