The Indonesia men's national basketball team represents the Republic of Indonesia in international
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competitions. The governing body of the team is the ''Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia'' (
Indonesian Basketball Association
Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia ( en, Indonesian Basketball Association), abbreviated as PERBASI, is the main basketball regulatory organizations in Indonesia. Founded on 23 October 1951, the organization has its headquarters in Jakarta.
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– ''PERBASI'').
Its biggest success was the gold medal at the 1996 South East Asian Championship.
Team Indonesia is one of the major teams in Southeast Asia. The team finished among the top-four teams in Asia at the 1967 Asian Basketball Championship. At the 1996 SEABA Championship, Indonesia was the dominant country and won the gold medal.
At the 1997 SEA Games in Jakarta, Indonesia failed to get a medal. Then, two years later Indonesia won the bronze medal at the Brunei 1999 SEA Games.
Indonesia participated at the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship as well, which was held 6–16 August 2009, in
Tianjin
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, China. They were able to qualify for the said tournament by placing second in the 2009 SEABA Championship held from 6–9 June 2009.
At the
FIBA Asia Championship
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, only the top 3 qualified for the World Basketball Championships. For these events, the head coach of the team was Rastafari Horongbala.
At the
FIBA Asia Championship 2009
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, Indonesia finished 15th, leaving behind Sri Lanka.
On individual performances, Kelly Purwanto and Isman Thoyib finished among the tournament's top performers. Purwanto finished in the top ten in steals per game, Thoyib finished in the top ten in blocks per game.
Indonesian basketball-icon Mario Wuysang was not able to represent his country at that event due scheduling conflicts (the final four of the Indonesian IBL was scheduled about the same time as this Asian Championship).
Indonesia will co-host the
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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along with Philippines and Japan although its national team did not finish at least among the top eight in the
2022 FIBA Asia Cup
The 2022 FIBA Asia Cup (formerly known as the FIBA Asia Championship) will be the 30th continental basketball championship in Asia. The tournament is organised by FIBA Asia.
Originally intended to be the 2021 edition, the tournament was initiall ...
and failed to qualify.
History
In the 1930s, even though it had not officially become an independent country, several cities in Indonesia already had local basketball clubs. After the proclamation of independence on 17 August 1945, basketball games began to be widely known in the cities that were involved in rivalries as
Yogyakarta
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. The game of basketball was played for the first time at the national level in 1948 in Solo at the
National Sports Week
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I (PON I). Although this organization does not yet have a national sports master, it can get a quite lively welcome, both in terms of viewers and from the participants themselves.
Three years after that, on 23 October 1951, the
Indonesian Basketball Association
Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia ( en, Indonesian Basketball Association), abbreviated as PERBASI, is the main basketball regulatory organizations in Indonesia. Founded on 23 October 1951, the organization has its headquarters in Jakarta.
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was formed and named Persatuan Basketball Seluruh Indonesia. In 1955, due to the improvement of the name in accordance with Indonesian rules, the federation was renamed Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia (PERBASI). Perbasi was later accepted as a member of FIBA in 1953, and a year later, for the first time Indonesia sent a team to compete in the 1954 Asian Games in
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Competitive records
Summer Olympics
FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIBA Asia Cup
Asian Games
FIBA Asia Challenge
SEABA Championship
SEABA Cup
Islamic Solidarity Games
Southeast Asian Games
Coaching staff
Current roster
Final roster at
2022 FIBA Asia Cup
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Originally intended to be the 2021 edition, the tournament was initiall ...
Indonesian Basketball Association
Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia ( en, Indonesian Basketball Association), abbreviated as PERBASI, is the main basketball regulatory organizations in Indonesia. Founded on 23 October 1951, the organization has its headquarters in Jakarta.
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Indonesia women's national basketball team
The Indonesia women's national basketball team is the women's national basketball team of Indonesia. The governing body of the team is the ''Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia'' (Indonesian Basketball Association – ''PERBASI'').
In Aug ...