When Indonesia is Cornered by Doping

WADA’s sanctions have the potential for Indonesia to lose its host status in several events, but the venues already built can be used after the sanctions end. The loss that we will actually incur is the loss of integrity

Have we ever imagined when, in a coming year, Indonesia’s best athletes like Eko Yuli Irawan, L.M. Zohri and a number of our badminton players have won their games, but their medal ceremony is neither accompanied by the national anthem “Indonesia Raya” nor the “Red and White” flag?

Such a scene is certainly heartrending. Then how could this come to be? On 7 Oct. 2021, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) declared that North Korea, Thailand and Indonesia were noncompliant.