Jakarta, Aug. 30 -- The chairperson of the executive board of the Indonesian Athletics Association (PB PASI), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, is targeting the new athletics training center built in North Sumatra Province to operate in 2026.

"We are currently building another training center in North Sumatra, which, I think, is better than the one in Pangalengan," he said at the 2025 PASI Congress in Solo, Central Java, on Saturday.

Currently, the association has two training centers, namely in Pangalengan, West Java, and Mimika, Papua.

Pandjaitan explained that the new training center in North Sumatra is built in accordance with international standards, equipped with various facilities, such as a dormitory, a fitness center, a research center...