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FIFA orders PSSI to return to electoral code
The Executive Committee of world soccer’s governing body FIFA urged the Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) to organize a general assembly within a month and to regain control over the breakaway Indonesian Premier League (LPI) or face potential suspension
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he Executive Committee of world soccer’s governing body FIFA urged the Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) to organize a general assembly within a month and to regain control over the breakaway Indonesian Premier League (LPI) or face potential suspension.
“The PSSI should organize the general assembly on March 26 ,2011 to elect the electoral commission and adopt an electoral code based on the FIFA standard electoral code. The electoral commission will then organize elections before April 30, 2011,” FIFA said in a media release posted on its website.
The standard electoral code is a FIFA regulation that standardizes, among others, the election, composition and duties of the electoral committee, criteria, submission and examination of candidates and appeal procedures. It also regulates voting procedures, counts and final provisions.
In the announcement, which was made after a two-day meeting in Zurich on Wednesday and Thursday, FIFA also ordered the PSSI to regain control over the breakaway LPI or be suspended.
“If the PSSI is not able to regain control of the breakaway league, the case will be submitted to the FIFA Executive Committee for a potential suspension,” the release read.
The LPI is an independent professional league launched in January without recognition from FIFA or the PSSI, which has banned the tournament’s players from representing the national team.
The PSSI’s disciplinary commission has also punished referees who have officiated at LPI matches. The PSSI also claimed it had permission from FIFA to punish all officials involved in the LPI.
In Jakarta, the city police arrested 11 men after they attacked the car of senior national football team manager Andi Darussalam Tabusalla in front of the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) headquarters on Friday.
The police said the attackers were thugs hired by PSSI chairman Nurdin Halid.
“They said they were paid between Rp 300,000 [US$34] and Rp. 700,000 to guard Nurdin,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr.Comr. Baharudin Djafar was quoted as saying Friday by news portal detik.com.
“They admitted the money was given by a man who is now on our wanted list.”
However, police have not determined the motive behind the attack.
