Dispora Supports Menpora to Make Gymnastics Compulsory in Schools

The Jakarta Youth and Sports Agency (Dispora) is ready to support the policy of Youth and Sports Minister (Menpora), Dito Ariotedjo, which makes gymnastics as a mandatory sport in schools.

We support it considering gymnastics is a sport that is easy to do anywhere and anytime

Dispora's Sports Civilisation Division Head, Tedi Cahyono expressed his party welcomed and was ready to support the Dispora Minister's policy in Jakarta schools.

"We support it considering gymnastics is a sport that is easy to do anywhere and anytime, including at school," he expressed, Sunday (7/9).

Central Jakarta 2 Region Education Sub-agency Opens 123 PPDB Posts

He added if gymnastics is done regularly and measuredly, it can improve the main components of student fitness. Such as aerobic endurance, strength, flexibility, coordination, and others.

Schools can be a vessel and the main motor in moving and directing students, especially at an early age, to have a mindset of cultivating sports as a lifestyle that is inseparable from everyday life.

To implement it, the government needs to work together with various stakeholders in increasing community participation in sports, including in schools.

"Public awareness to exercise contributes to the development of smart, healthy, skilled, resilient, competitive, prosperous, and dignified individuals and communities," he explained.

He went on to say that the step that will be taken to support the policy is to hold a program to provide certified gymnastics instructors. This gymnastic instructor will become a gymnastic ambassador whose job is to educate basic movements and improvise movements from various types of existing gymnastics.

"Equally important, we'll coordinate with Jakarta Education Agency (Disdik) and Indonesian Student Sports Advisory Board (Bapopsi) to optimize the implementation of Physical Education in schools which includes intra-curricular, extra-curricular and co-curricular, thus its implementation in schools can be carried out at least three times a week," he continued.

Disdik also provided the same support. Disdik Agency Acting Head, Purwosusilo uttered his party fully supports the policy of making gymnastics a mandatory sport in schools. It needs to be implemented to cultivate a clean and healthy lifestyle.

"They (Disdik) encourage all educators, educational staff, and students to do gymnastics together at least once a week. Gymnastics material itself has also been integrated into sports subjects at all school levels," he closed.