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Erick Thohir, Prabowo meet with IOC in France as Indonesia dreams of hosting Olympics
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The Eiffel Tower and the Olympics Rings are illuminated during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024. (AFP/Lionel BONAVENTURE)
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tate-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir, a well-known figure in sports management in Indonesia, accompanied president-elect Prabowo Subianto over the weekend to meet International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach in France as Indonesia dreams of one day hosting the Olympics.
The meeting took place several days after the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics began. The sporting event will run until Aug. 11.
In pictures he posted on Instagram, Erick appears sitting alongside Youth and Sports Minister Dito Ariotedjo and National Olympic Committee (NOC) chair Raja Sapta “Okto” Oktohari as Prabowo converses with Bach.
“We explained in the meeting about Indonesia’s potential to host international-level sporting events, including the Olympics in the future,” Erick, who chairs the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI), wrote on Instagram on Sunday.
It was not the first time Indonesian government representatives made a bid to host the world’s biggest sporting event. In 2022, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said the country would be ready to host the 2036 Summer Olympics in the planned future capital of Nusantara, which is still under construction.
After this year’s edition in Paris, the next Summer Olympics are slated to be held in Los Angeles, the United States, in 2028 and in Brisbane, Australia, in 2032.
The host of the 2036 Olympics has yet to be announced. Alongside Indonesia, India and Turkey, among other nations, have bid for hosting duties that year.
