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 – ''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

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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

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as well, which was held 6–16 August 2009, in

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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

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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

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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 co-hosted the

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along with Philippines and Japan although its national team did not finish at least among the top eight in the

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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

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vs.

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. The game of basketball was played for the first time at the national level in 1948 in Solo at the

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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 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

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Competitive records

Olympic Games

FIBA Basketball World Cup

FIBA Asia Cup

Asian Games

FIBA Asia Challenge

SEABA Championship

SEABA Cup

Islamic Solidarity Games

Southeast Asian Games

Coaching staff

Team

Current roster

Competition:

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Past rosters

2019 Southeast Asian Games

2021 Southeast Asian Games

2022 FIBA Asia Cup

2023 Southeast Asian Games

Naturalized players

Head coach position

References

External links

Indonesia Basketball Records
at FIBA Archive
Asia-basket
- Indonesia Men National Team
Indonesian Basketball Association "PERBASI"
Official Website

Videos

Basketball Men's Malaysia vs Indonesia (Day 7) , 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015
Youtube.com video {{National sports teams of Indonesia Men's national basketball teams 1954 establishments in Indonesia National sports teams established in 1954 National sports teams of Indonesia