History of Football in Indonesia

Football History of Indonesia became the desire of many parties to be standardized so that the public receive clear information, intact, and scientific. If the history of great kingdoms in the archipelago can be identified, but why not football Indoonesia also no clarity? Unfortunately until now this is still a mystery inexpressible.

To expose and reveal the history Football Indonesia in shalimow.com done by searching with the engine pencarianpun never received an adequate presentation of information. Likewise, track it down through the library, ranging from book stores to used bookstores in the area Monday, the Jakarta never nevertheless obtain important information as well.

Had thought about by me that perhaps there is not any strong validity of documents that reveal the history of Indonesian football. Or at least the results of historical research about the history Football Indonesia by historians, and so on. And when writing this article I became increasingly convinced of the notion that the birth of Football History of Indonesia is not yet available.

The difficulty that would occur is not ditemukanya usual historical documents such as ancient relics in the form of temples, written on palm leaves, tools, etc.. Perhaps also because sport is considered as a social activity that is less important so as not well documented by our ancestors. Somewhat different from the few relics of Roman and European history will find football activities.

The same thing happened to search on the history of the emergence of soccer sport in this earth that still invite debate. Several documents explaining the history of the world that football was born since Roman times, partly explaining domestic football comes from China, and so on

On the other hand Bill Murray, a football historian, in his book The World Game: A History of Soccer, explaining that the game of football has been known since the beginning of AD, the Ancient Egyptian society are familiar with techniques to bring d kicking a ball made of bundles of linen cloth.
In my opinion the tangled threads of the history of football Indonesia could begin to be parsed by examining the history of Indonesia's existing documents in the Netherlands. According to my analysis of the history of the sport was started by immigrants from abroad, not from the indigenous Indonesian. So some possibilities are:

 1. The merchants of the country around the 7th century AD Chinese who began to enter the archipelago, especially in the territory of Srivijaya kingdom. As is known game of Chinese society until the 2nd century BC to the 3rd sports are familiar with football kind, known as "tsu chu".
 2. Brought into Indonesia by traders from the Netherlands, if their initial entry to Indonesia around 1602 AD, the football was born from the development of their trade activities in Indonesia.

Both the possibility of the birth history of football over the truth or can be also be a mistake, but no one can justify these two things except on the basis of solid historical facts. Here lies the urgency of the search dilakukanya Indonesian national soccer history.

We all hope the government through the ministry of youth and sport can also pay attention to this matter so that the national sports history not to lose the torch. Some seminars history or research on this may be very urgent to do so gives some history of the birth of the starting point of the national football clarity.