Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) chairman Nurdin Halid on Tuesday said the much-debated association's statutes had been approved by world football governing body FIFA.
“The PSSI statutes were validated on April 21, 2009 in the extraordinary congress. However, FIFA had given its approval beforehand,” Nurdin told House commission X, as aired by TVOne on Tuesday.
Nurdin said the association had spent two years completing its statutes.
While drawing up the statutes, the PSSI had been in correspondence with both the Asia Football Confederation (AFC) and FIFA, Nurdin said.
A coalition of soccer lovers, grouped under the Indonesian Soccer Monitoring Society (MPSI), plans to report PSSI to FIFA for manipulating the latter’s statutes.
Max Sopacua from the MPSI said the PSSI had stated that a former convict could be nominated as PSSI chairman, despite the fact that FIFA statutes rule otherwise.
“We will send a team to the FIFA headquarters before the PSSI congress,” Max said last week.
Nurdin Halid is a former graft convict and current PSSI chairman. He is also one of the candidates in the PSSI’s upcoming chairmanship race.
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