Jakarta – Youth and Sports Minister Dito Ariotedjo’s plan to make gymnastics a required sport at all levels of education has drawn assistance from numerous parties, consisting of Governor of Lampung Arinal Djunaidi.
Governor Djunaidi invited the minister’s strategy, saying that he will advise education workplaces in Lampung to urge schools to make gymnastics necessary.
” We can reveal the dedication to embracing a healthy way of life by making gymnastics an obligatory sport in schools,” the guv said, as per info posted on the Youth and Sports Ministry’s site on Saturday.
He added that the ministry’s plan is in line with Lampung’s commitment to promoting a healthy way of life while improving the quality of education.
” Making gymnastic activities compulsory in schools lines up with our commitment to regularly applying a healthy lifestyle and enhancing the quality of education in Lampung province,” he continued.
An enhancement in academic quality, he stated, could, in turn, increase the quality of personnels, enhance the country’s competitiveness, and produce young generations who are prepared to face future difficulties.
Earlier, Minister Ariotedjo notified that his ministry will encourage all educational institutions to adopt gymnastics as an obligatory sport.
The minister stated that gymnastics is required to push for a more powerful physical and character advancement procedure for lots of branches of sport.
” The Youth and Sports Ministry is urging every school to make gymnastics an obligatory sport. We are currently finalizing the policy. Ideally, we can start implementing it by the end of this year,” he notified.
The Grand Design of National Sports (DBON) consists of gymnastics as one of Indonesia’s top priority sports since gymnastics has the possible to become the nation’s mainstay sport in international-level competitors, consisting of the Olympics.
The Indonesian Gymnastics Association (Persani) has actually continued to enhance the efficiency of Indonesia’s gymnasts. Currently, the association is preparing gymnastic athlete Rifda Irfanaluthfi for the credentials for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.
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