Instilling an Australian touch on Indonesian football...

original from: www.thefootballsack.com

Saturday, April 02, 2011

by Nick Guoth

Life in Indonesia as a footballer has been quite different in 2011. In this third part of football in Indonesia, The Football Sack chats to Professional Footballers Australia’s CEO Brendan Schwab about his, and FIFPro’s, involvement with the Indonesian Premier League (LPI).

FIFPro is the world players’ union and in 2005 Schwab was asked to be chair of the FIFPro Asia Committee which two years later became one of the four official Divisions of FIFPro. Through this Schwab was involved in the development of the Indonesian players’ association (APPI) under the leadership of Vennard Hutabarat and Arya Abhiseka.

Some of the fact about PSSI and Indonesia Super League:

1.   Nurdin Halid, the PSSI chairman, he has lead the organization since 2003. He was jailed for criminal cases and being jailed for a number of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurdin_Halid. Nurdin also one of the functionary for Golkar Party (one of the biggest political party, now lead by Aburizal Bakrie).