Lack of Support, It Turns Out that the Women’s Basketball National Team Find Their Own Expenses

– The Indonesian women’s basketball team has indeed made history by winning the gold medal at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia. This became the first gold during participation in the biennial event.

But it turns out that behind this success, they lack support, including from the Indonesian government itself, and even have to find their own costs, aka independent without any sports assistance funds.

This was stated by the captain of the Indonesian women’s national team, Henny Sutjiono. He said there was no financial assistance from the government during the training camp (TC). In addition, there has also been no women’s basketball league competition for the last two years.

“As for support, women’s basketball is less when compared to men’s basketball, especially from the government,” he said as quoted from YouTube Deddy Corbuzier on Wednesday (24/5/2023).

“Example training camp this is us for the SEA Games 2021 Hanoi, then with the SEA Games Cambodia, this is our manager who is doing everything. There is no self-financing from the government, managers are looking for and disbursing their own funds,” continued Henny.

It is said, whereas previously the government has always supported through financing. However, after the Covid-19 pandemic, the government no longer financed the women’s basketball national team because it allocated a budget for sports that have the opportunity to win gold medals.

Even though he had expressed his disquiet about government support, the success of the women’s basketball national team winning gold at the 2023 SEA Games is a definite answer.

According to the captain, success cannot be separated from the mental aspect which has continued to improve from previous years.

After successfully proving themselves at the 2023 SEA Games, the women’s basketball national team clearly has an injection of enthusiasm to perform even better. Henny even stated that she would demand that the government again provide support for women’s basketball.

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