Normalization committee not using Nurdin's PSSI statutes

The Jakarta Post | Thu, 04/07/2011 9:12 AM | Sports

The normalization committee has decided not to use the statutes of the Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) that allowed a convict to be elected as its chairman.

"The draft of the organization's regulations will be formulated based on the statutes of the world soccer body, FIFA, to avoid controversy," normalization committee chairman Agum Gumelar said Wednesday.

The draft regulation is expected to be completed by Friday.

Agum, a former PSSI chairman, was appointed by FIFA as the

normalization committee chairman to run the daily activities of PSSI before the election of a new PSSI chairman next month.

The normalization committee was established as FIFA deemed the current executive committee of PSSI as no longer legitimate.

Nurdin Halid could no longer lead the organization, as seen in his the organization's failure to hold a congress last month and deal with the presence of the Indonesian Premier League, FIFA said.

Nurdin Halid says PSSI statutes have FIFA approval

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 03/01/2011 12:05 PM | Sports

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.