Indonesia became the overall champion of the branch Martial arts Of SEA Games 2023 Cambodia with nine gold medals. This achievement makes us proud not only because it almost doubled the initial target.
Puspa Arumsari, Khoirudin Mustakim, Muhammad Zaki Zikrillah Prasong, Tito Hendra Septia Kurnia, Iqbal Candra Pratama, Safira Dwi Meilanie, Jeni Elvis Kause, Atifa Fismawati, and the trio Anggi Faisal Mubarok, Asep Yuldan Sani, Rano Slamet Nugraha, managed to steal nine gold pieces of Pencak Silat at the 2023 SEA Games.
This result made Indonesia the winner of the most gold medals, aka the overall champion, in the Pencak Silat branch at the Southeast Asian Games. Achievements of the Indonesian Pencak Silat team in SEA Games 2023 far beyond other countries. Malaysia and Vietnam are under Indonesia with 4 gold each.
In addition to the 9 gold, the athletes Indonesian Pencak Silat also won an additional 6 silver and 1 bronze. In total, the Indonesian Pencak Silat team brought home 16 medals for the 2023 SEA Games.
With 9 gold pieces, Pencak Silat has also contributed the most gold medals to Indonesia at the 2023 SEA Games so far. In second place temporarily is Athletics with 7 puck.
The 10 branches that have contributed the most gold to Indonesia at the 2023 SEA Games so far
| Sport | It’s not | Perak |
Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| martial arts | 9 | 6 | 1 | 16 |
| Athletics | 7 | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| Bike racing | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Kun bokator | 3 | 5 | 12 | 20 |
| Vovinam | 3 | 1 | 14 | 18 |
| Swimming | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Karate | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| Wushu | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Soft tennis | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Esports | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
“Another pride that should be appreciated is the success of the Indonesian Pencak Silat National Team in returning to its glory at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia. The medal tally was very sharp, from 1 gold to 9 gold and at the same time won the overall championship in the sport of pencak silat, which is the ancestral heritage of the Indonesian nation,” said the Menpora. Dito Ariotedjo, appreciated the achievement of Pencak Silat which at the previous SEA Games had to be satisfied with 1 gold piece.
The achievement of Indonesian Pencak Silat in Cambodia makes me even more proud, considering that during the previous five SEA Games there was no sport that could contribute up to 9 gold pieces for Indonesia.
Sequentially, at the 2021 SEA Games there are Shooting and Rowing as Indonesia’s biggest contributors of gold each with 8 chips. In 2019, there’s Canoeing and Shooting (7 pieces each). Athletics became the most gold contributor in 2017 with 5 pieces. Indonesia’s largest gold contributor paddle in 2015 with 8 pieces. Meanwhile, in the 2013 SEA Games, there was a Kenpo that presented the Red and White with the most gold, 7 pieces.
Indonesian Pencak Silat Achievements in SEA Games 2023 with 9 gold pieces this also matched his contribution in 2011, which was also the last time that Merah Putih became the overall champion of the SEA Games event. At that time Indonesia won 182 gold, 151 silver and 143 bronze. Thailand and Vietnam are in second and third place.
Pencak Silat Far Exceeds 2023 SEA Games Target
Ahead of the 2023 SEA Games, the results at the World Championships in Malaysia last year have also become capital for the Indonesian Pencak Silat team. At that time, Indonesian Pencak Silat became the overall champion with 11 gold medals.
These results later also became a reference in setting targets at the 2023 SEA Games. At least five gold pieces were targeted by the PB Indonesian Pencak Silat Association (PB I) namely three from the match number and two from the art number.
In fact, Indonesia’s Pencak Silat gold medal at the 2023 SEA Games has almost doubled from the initial target of PB IPSI, which since 2004 has been routinely led by Prabowo Subianto as chairman.
Proud achievement Martial arts at the 2023 SEA Games it is not impossible that Indonesia will again echo Indonesia’s power and efforts so that sports, as well as national culture, Indonesia can compete in the Olympics.
One of these hopes was expressed by the General Chair of the KONI Center, Marciano Norman and Zainudin Amali, who were still the Minister of Youth and Sports at the time of the inauguration of Prabowo Subianto’s management after being re-elected as the Ketum. PB I period 2021-2025.
“As General Chair of the Central KONI, I would like to express my highest gratitude and appreciation to Mr. Prabowo, in the midst of his busy life as Minister of Defense, he is still willing to lead the Indonesian Pencak Silat Association because of his love for silat,” said Marciano in a written statement to detikSport, mid-January 2022.
“I hope that with hard work and with the network that Mr. Prabowo has as Ketum PB Ias the Minister of Defense, and a public figure, pencak silat can be competed in the Olympics.”
At that time, Prabowo Subianto also emphasized his determination to work hard to realize these hopes. He also asked the administrators under his leadership to serve the nation and the state.
“I want to emphasize that we are here, to sincerely serve Indonesia. We will not disappoint the trust of the entire martial arts community and Indonesian people,” said Prabowo Subianto.
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2023-05-11 14:10:59
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