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View all search resultsPSSI 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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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.
“There is a perception that the PSSI is corrupt. So, let’s put that to the test with these task forces, which will be independent and have been given full support from the government,” Erick said.
The Ernst and Young audit will be the first time that the PSSI comes clean with its financial books, despite the fact that the organization receives substantial amounts of aid yearly, including from FIFA.
The FIFA Forward 2.0 Fund from 2019 to 2021, for instance, saw the country receive US$3 million in aid for the development of Indonesian soccer, Kompas.id reported.
World soccer’s governing body was also due to give up to $9.2 million to the PSSI as part of the FIFA Forward Fund 3.0, before it decided to freeze the funds as a sanction for Indonesia’s botched hosting of the Under-20 World Cup.
