{"id":13580,"date":"2025-10-23T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/ioc-wants-no-sports-events-in-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:29","slug":"ioc-wants-no-sports-events-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ioc-wants-no-sports-events-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC wants no sports events in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The International Olympic Committee (IOC) urged international sports federations on Wednesday not to host any sports events in Indonesia after the country banned Israeli gymnasts from a world championship that is taking place there this month.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The IOC said in a statement it was also cutting off all discussions about any potential Olympic Games bid by Indonesia until the government provided assurances that all athletes, irrespective of nationality, would be eligible to compete there in future.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Indonesia has repeatedly expressed an interest in hosting the 2036 summer Olympics but Wednesday\u2019s IOC decision all but buried the country\u2019s chances of landing the Games in 11 years\u2019 time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Indonesia, the world\u2019s largest Muslim-majority country denied visas to Israeli gymnasts earlier this month amid an outcry over Israel\u2019s military offensive in Gaza, meaning they could not take part in the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships that began last week in Jakarta.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Commenting on the decision at the time, Senior Legal Affairs Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra cited objections to Israel\u2019s participation from the government in Jakarta and from groups such as a council of Islamic clerics.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Israel Gymnastics Federation called Indonesia\u2019s decision shocking and heartbreaking.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The IOC also said in its statement on Wednesday that it would change qualification principles to include guarantees for access of all athletes, irrespective of nationality, for any qualification event for an Olympic Games.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>It also ordered the Indonesian Olympic Committee and the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) to attend a meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne to discuss the matter. It did not provide a date for the meeting.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Indonesia has no formal diplomatic ties with Israel, and has strongly criticized Israel over the Gaza war, even after this month\u2019s ceasefire took effect.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13218,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13580","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Indonesia has repeatedly expressed an interest in hosting the 2036 summer Olympics.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Indonesia has repeatedly expressed an interest in hosting the 2036 summer Olympics.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18639,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13580\/revisions\/18639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}