Indonesia bidding to host 2032 Olympics

Indonesia has submitted a bid to host the 2032 Olympics, the state news agency said yesterday, after winning praise for hosting last year's Asian Games, though it could face competition from India and a joint bid by North and South Korea.

Indonesia's ambassador to Switzerland submitted a letter from President Joko Widodo to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last week.

"The IOC has acknowledged Indonesia's capabilities during the Asian Games and Asian Para Games of 2018," the Antara news agency quoted Ambassador Muliaman D. Hadad as saying.

"We feel that is a strong foundation."

A senior official in the coordinating ministry for human development and culture, Gunawan, who goes by one name, confirmed the bid.

If South-east Asia's most populous nation wins the opportunity to host the summer Olympics, it would become the fourth Asian country to do so, after Japan, China and South Korea.

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The IOC will pick the 2032 host by 2025.

Tokyo will host the next Summer Olympics in 2020, with Paris holding the 2024 Games and Los Angeles confirmed to host the event four years later.

Ahead of last year's Asian Games,which was held in Jakarta and Palembang, there were doubts over whether Indonesia could successfully host an event which involved more than 10,000 athletes.

But the 16-day event was run relatively smoothly, winning praise from the IOC and paving the way for this bid. - REUTERS