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KPAI faces online backlash after PB Djarum halts audition
The latest Instagram post on KPAI’s account @KPAI_Official, which shows KPAI executives meeting with heads of regional education agencies in a hotel in Jakarta, was inundated with more than 4,000 comments as of Monday morning, most of them complaints about the audition suspension.
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PB Djarum badminton club logo. (pbdjarum.org/pbdjarum.org)
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ateful comments have flooded the official social media accounts of the Child Protection Commission (KPAI) following the announcement by PB Djarum, Indonesia’s leading badminton club, that it would not run its general badminton audition next year.
The latest Instagram post on KPAI’s account @KPAI_Official, which shows KPAI executives meeting with heads of regional education agencies in a hotel in Jakarta, was inundated with more than 4,000 comments as of Monday morning, most of them complaints about the audition suspension.
Most of the comments demanded that the KPAI not interfere with PB Djarum’s efforts to scout new badminton talent, and to focus instead on other issues affecting children’s welfare, such as eradicating non-educational television programs.
PB Djarum is a badminton club in Kudus, Central Java, founded in 1969, and run with funding from cigarette company Djarum. The club gained recognition after Indonesia won the Thomas Cup in 1984 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a team dominated by PB Djarum players.
