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Indonesia's SEA Training Program Goes on Despite Shortage of Funds
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Xinhua English Newswire
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May 25, 1999
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Indonesia's training program for the 20th Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games in Brunei will continue despite a lack of financial support
from the government and the public, an official with the National
Sports Council (KONI) has said.
Moch. Hindarto, who is in charge of athlete development,
expressed concern that the council only received promises for 9
billion rupiah (1.1 million U.S. dollars) from the National
Development Planning Board (Bappenas) and the Gelora Senayan
Management Board.
He said Bappenas had agreed to allocate 5.5 billion rupiah from
the state budget for KONI and would distribute the money in June.
This is well short of 22.3 billion rupiah KONI asked for.
"We will use the money ...